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gets up from rocking chair I never really got the purpose of dating apps, as I was still married when they came out, and when the ex and I separated, I had a Plan B inadvertently lined up via work. The latter and I did use apps on her phone, but it was just for the purposes of making fun of the banality of cookie-cutter pictures and bios while drinking on the porch.
The irony is I met both my ex-wives on OKCupid, but back in 2004.
Most of them were full of bots and scammers even before the AI craze. I can only imagine how bad they are now.
I'll say that I had a good experience with Coffee Meets Bagel but that was years ago. Their gimmick at the time was that they only showed you up to 10 profiles per day so it didn't incentivize doomscrolling like Tinder.
"Dating apps do not optimize for you to find the love of your life, they optimize for you coming back to the app" - Connor Leahy
Who's shocked.
My Male coworkers scroll hrs a daily for a match and get terrible options.
Meanwhile Female coworkers get overwhelmed with 100s and cannot possibly get the best fit for them. Horrible for both sides.
this is by design. NO COMPANY in the entire world is going to provide a product in hopes that one day you won't need to use it anymore. So dating apps, by design, provide you with horrible matches so that you keep using said app. They don't want you finding the "love of your life", it's bad business if they did.
Well it would help if it was a one time payment without any other form of monetization
Not surprising at all, one conglomerate owns pretty much every single one of them, and it they're successful you don't need them anymore.
good riddance!
After Grindr started using PairIP and made this mod unusable: https://github.com/R0rt1z2/GrindrPlus, Grindr has become shit if you don't pay for it.
They are all now shit if you don't pay for it. Pof, okcupid, they are garbage. They used to work while silicon valley was still in it's growth phase, hen enshitified when they entered the maximizing revenue phase, which started perhaps a bit earlier with dating sites than other sectors like search engines.