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Interesting after they were bought they kind of fell off the map. That's typical
by ipaddr 5y ago
Interesting after they were bought they kind of fell off the map. That's typical
- vxNsr 5y agoYea, they were bought by that dating conglomerate, I’m guessing the users have been rolled into one pot, instead of keeping them separate
- ornornor 5y agoThey also removed a couple of the posts that showed, supported by hard numbers from their analytics, that several things that match.com et al. will sell their users hard on don’t work at all and can even negatively affect your odds of being successful of the site. These posts were deleted shortly after the acquisition but they’re probably still in archive.org etc.
- paulgb 5y agoHeh, the same thing happened to Ok Cupid. (Caches of) one of the posts occasionally resurface on HN, as here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055501
- ornornor 5y agoI might be mixing them up, it could very well have been ok Cupid that I was thinking of.
- cutler 5y agoMarkus was shrewd enough to see how the business was changing in terms of the cost of providing a free service and jumped ship accordingly. At least that's how I read it.