Users are only visible when actively connected to the site, and the UI leans into this ephemerality by regularly purging chats and encounter histories. Sniffies encourages users to get out of the house and explore what’s around them, mapping out a network of cruising hot spots from public restrooms and wooded enclaves to porn theaters and glory holes.

The experience of logging on for the first time to find yourself immersed in a sea of genitals is both thrilling and overwhelming. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditional apps and in some ways calls back to the experience of the bathhouse-only in this case, the bathhouse is a five-mile radius of city blocks. Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site (NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken back to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a live updated GPS map.