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hi5 uses some pretty shitty tactics to achieve retention. Namely, fake users with "attractive" photos. Most profiles there are fake. Rather than fixing the ret
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
hi5 uses some pretty shitty tactics to achieve retention. Namely, fake users with "attractive" photos. Most profiles there are fake.
Rather than fixing the retention problem, they decided to hide it in the most ridiculous way possible.
The website also has an awful design.
- lindner 6y agohi5 (RIP) was originally a dating site and Pivoted to a Social Network. Most profiles fake? I can say for sure that's not true. I maintained Postgres/Memcache/Graph DBs and the write load was real. That said hi5 did engage in address book scraping and other dark patterns that you'd rather not see these days. Fun fact: hi5 had a featured photos/profiles section based on popularity. Folks that ended up there deleted their account by 5x or more due to the unwanted attention their 'popular' photos garnered....
- 29athrowaway 6y agoIf that is the case then it was very poorly thought out. Am I interested in dating people that live in another hemisphere? no.