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Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)

• masonic 7y ago
  (2010), by the founder of OKCupid.
  • akmarinov 7y ago
    He does disclose that in the beginning
    • masonic 7y ago
      When I wrote that, (2010) hadn't been added to the title yet. That's standard HN protocol for "old" stories.
• dang 7y ago
  Discussed in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277626 and in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170998 Perhaps nitpickingly, we changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20190429100515/https://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dating.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190429100515/https://static.iz... to the archive.org page for the original URL.
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• notadoc 7y ago
  I recall long ago OKCupid used to do a lot of in-depth data analysis like this, why did that stop?
  • true_religion 7y ago
    They were bought by a dating paysite which took down all their content that didn't fit the party line.