Like many people, I downloaded Tophy because it was advertised in the Lovense app. That is the only reason I downloaded it. I was actually surprised when I started seeing people who were looking for dating or chatting in Tophy that is so heavily marketed toward toy control. The number of people on Tophy who immediately want to go to another platform drives me berserk. I have put in my profile that they will immediately be blocked if toy control is not the reason they are there. This, of course, does not affect scammers, because they never read the profiles. So now I just block them as soon as I see their profile setting. I really appreciate the reporting aspect. I’ve had sessions where my toy starts going, we get to the point where I’m expecting them to share their control info, and instead it’s a request for money. I tell them this is against ToS, which gets various responses, but never a “oh, I didn’t know, let’s play!” I screenshot it, go to report, ask them if there’s no other option to play, and report, then block. Also, every person who wants to switch apps gets blocked if they persist. The developer could easily block words like snap, telegram or tgram, cashapp, google chat, PayPal,etc. This would curtail it somewhat pretty quickly. I told the first person who asked for payment “Asking for money is against the ToS” and got flagged for using “money” in chat! So blocking keywords works somewhat. They just need to change what the filters are scanning for. But the first time I actually connected with someone and controlled their toy and we video chatted while sexting, I was stunned with how clean the interface was, with the controls and video on the same screen. Just amazing!! I’d pay for Tophy in a heartbeat, just to have the scammers and bots removed, it’s that much better than the stock Lovense app!!!
One last interface change that would help. The badge icon for Toy Verified and just regular Verified needs to be different. When you’re chatting with someone and that badge is up in theheader, you can’t tell if they have a toy certificate or not. The badges are the same shape, color, and location, so until you tap and read the off white letters on the silver background, you don’t know. Make them drastically and unmistakably different, since they mean very different things!