Jack’d Introduces “MOMENTS,” a Flirty New Story Feature Helping Users Spice Up Dating Connections

In a digital world where queer folks are constantly asked to perform permanence, Jack’d is turning the tide with a feature that feels refreshingly human.

This winter, Jack’d is set to roll out MOMENTS, a new way for users to share short-lived photos and videos that evaporate after 72 hours,  like a breath on glass, here long enough to say I was here, but not long enough to be archived into someone else’s definition of you.

Jack’d describes it as its own answer to Instagram Stories, but for the community that knows intimacy is a language with multiple dialects, flirty glances, soft vulnerability, late-night selfies, rooftop joy, and the messiness and magic of daily queer life. Moments appear, shimmer, and disappear, as ephemeral as the many selves we try on each day.

And for an app grounded in connection, this evolution feels timely. MOMENTS is built to let users “express themselves quickly and authentically,” according to the company, offering a window that feels less like a curated museum and more like a candid, sunlit room where your truest self can walk around barefoot.

“Jack’d Moments has been in development for several months. The idea came from a simple question we kept hearing from users: they wanted a more real, more immediate way to connect. Dating apps traditionally haven’t offered a space for spontaneous, in-the-moment content, yet this type of sharing is hugely popular on mainstream social platforms,” a Jack’d executive said in a exclusive statement to Gaye Magazine.

“We saw an opportunity to bring that same energy into Jack’d, but in a way that feels safe, private, and built specifically for queer men and the LGBTQ+ community. Moments gives users a fast, authentic way to show what they’re up to right now and spark conversations naturally. It creates engagement that feels more human and helps people connect more quickly. This feature is part of our ongoing commitment to evolve the app, listen to our community, and deliver tools that make Jack’d safer, better, and more fun every day.”

Moments lets users post up to eight short-lived photos or videos by tapping their avatar in the Inbox tab and uploading from their camera or gallery. Audiences can be selected using Jack’d’s pre-existing Lists or through Direct Send, creating a sense of intimacy and intentionality that other apps sometimes miss.

Privacy is central:

• Blocked users can’t see your Moments.
• Screenshots are disabled.
• More granular audience controls are on the way.
  

Replies to Moments open a direct chat, making it easy for a fleeting visual, a wink, a laugh, a half-buttoned shirt, or maybe even something more salacious, to turn into a conversation.

It is clear that Jack’s wanted to design a feature that celebrates queer expression without demanding permanence. MOMENTS is about freedom, softness, and connection, without the pressure.

I spent the last few days exploring the early build of MOMENTS with a few friends, giving ourselves permission to be a little messy, a little luminous, a little undone. My friend uploaded a quiet morning photo, sunlight on my cheek, still half-asleep, and chose a small audience from his Lists. A few hours later, he posted a short video of something a little more raunchy.

What struck me wasn’t just the ease of the feature, though it is beautifully intuitive, but rather the feeling of it. There is a softness to MOMENTS, a kind of digital exhale. The disappearing nature encouraged my friends to share without overthinking, without trying to perfect themselves into something palatable.

It reminded me of what queer apps can be when they lean toward care, and not spaces of performance, but of presence.

If the goal was to create something that feels human, fleeting, and real, then Jack’d has taken a bold and necessary step. MOMENTS feels like a small revolution in vulnerability, one that doesn’t ask us to be archivists of ourselves, just witnesses.

In a time when queer digital spaces oscillate between hyper-curation and hyper-surveillance, MOMENTS feels like a deliberate return to the spontaneous. The feature invites users to show life not as a polished portrait but as a pulse.

This is especially potent in LGBTQ+ communities, where the act of showing oneself, even momentarily, carries history, courage, longing, and liberation.

As someone who has watched queer apps evolve from chat-only spaces to full identity platforms, I can say with certainty; this is bigger than just a new tool. It is an invitation to expand digital intimacy.

Like any new feature in queer digital space, the reactions are already their own little constellation and that beloved queer mix of we’ll see what this gives.

Marcus, from NYC, a friend of mine known for his tender but chaotic dating stories, told me, “I love the idea of showing my day without making it a whole photoshoot. Like, let me post my ‘just woke up, still fine though’ soft nude and let it disappear before I second-guess it.”

He laughed and added, “Plus, maybe it’ll help me stop texting people I don’t need to be texting.”

Meanwhile, my friend DeShawn, who treats new app features the way aunties treat new casserole recipes, offered a cautious but hopeful take.

“I’m intrigued… but I’m not sold until I see it. Some folks already doing too much on their profiles. If Moments is just more thirst traps, I’ma mind my business. But if it’s more than vibes? Yeah, that could be cute.”

The beauty of these varied responses mirrors the beauty of the feature itself, MOMENTS doesn’t force a single kind of queer expression, it will allow many.

At its heart, this is about storytelling. About glimpses rather than galleries. About the real truth that not everything has to be forever to be meaningful.

Jack’d naming the feature MOMENTS feels intentional. It honors the truth that life is made of small things that rarely get spotlighted. The grin behind your morning smoothie. The curl falling over your eyebrow at 3 a.m. The way the light hits your chest when you’re brushing your teeth before another day begins. The softness of being seen just long enough, but not longer than you choose.

Jack’d has plans for even more privacy controls and creative tools, signaling that MOMENTS is just the beginning of a new era for the app, one where interaction goes beyond swipes and static bios.

For now, users can prepare for a feature that promises something rare in today’s digital landscape, a place where authenticity, consent, and joy share equal ground. Download Jack’d here.