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The autocomplete for googling "hinge only" is "hinge only showing fat" and "hinge only showing ugly". There's pages and pages of people saying they get shown no

The autocomplete for googling "hinge only" is "hinge only showing fat" and "hinge only showing ugly". There's pages and pages of people saying they get shown nothing but the least attractive people on hinge, which would cause real people to just delete it.

nelsondev 4y ago
I’m guessing they have a low Elo score, and are matching with other low Elo scores. I believe best thing to do is delete the account and create a new one to reset your score.
- moffkalast 4y ago
  They need to study their chess theory more.
- bradlys 4y ago
  100% this. Your experience on hinge will be terrible generally unless A) lucky or B) very good looking. I’ve gotten lucky with the ELO score once on Hinge out of the dozen times I created accounts on it. I was shown attractive women and got matched even to a few (which went nowhere of course). But most times I got shown fat and ugly people. I know I’m not good looking but sometimes I see the people on these apps and I think, “man, some people really get it way worse than I do…” And that’s who it shows to me overwhelmingly. Meanwhile it’ll lock all the attractive women behind paid features. It’s a bad app. I think a few years ago before it was bought up it had some potential but since Match integrated all their practices into Hinge - it’s a bad app.
- itake 4y ago
  I find that filtering by language drastically improved the quality of matches. Choosing people that speak non-english languages, reduces overweight native talent.
heyheyhey 4y ago
Hinge has a weird bucketing technique where it'll show you 30 straight unattractive profiles one day then 30 straight mega-attractive profiles the next day. No idea why they do that.
gs17 4y ago
My Hinge feed (when I used it) seemed to be sorted in increasing attractiveness order. Maybe showing people you're more likely to have a chance with (assuming everyone is willing to date someone "more attractive" than themself, which might be a big assumption) is considered more likely to create matches? Bumble seemed to do something resembling the opposite which felt slightly more pointless.

nelsondev 4y ago

I’m guessing they have a low Elo score, and are matching with other low Elo scores. I believe best thing to do is delete the account and create a new one to reset your score.

moffkalast 4y ago
They need to study their chess theory more.
bradlys 4y ago
100% this. Your experience on hinge will be terrible generally unless A) lucky or B) very good looking. I’ve gotten lucky with the ELO score once on Hinge out of the dozen times I created accounts on it. I was shown attractive women and got matched even to a few (which went nowhere of course). But most times I got shown fat and ugly people. I know I’m not good looking but sometimes I see the people on these apps and I think, “man, some people really get it way worse than I do…” And that’s who it shows to me overwhelmingly. Meanwhile it’ll lock all the attractive women behind paid features. It’s a bad app. I think a few years ago before it was bought up it had some potential but since Match integrated all their practices into Hinge - it’s a bad app.
itake 4y ago
I find that filtering by language drastically improved the quality of matches. Choosing people that speak non-english languages, reduces overweight native talent.

heyheyhey 4y ago

Hinge has a weird bucketing technique where it'll show you 30 straight unattractive profiles one day then 30 straight mega-attractive profiles the next day. No idea why they do that.

gs17 4y ago

My Hinge feed (when I used it) seemed to be sorted in increasing attractiveness order. Maybe showing people you're more likely to have a chance with (assuming everyone is willing to date someone "more attractive" than themself, which might be a big assumption) is considered more likely to create matches? Bumble seemed to do something resembling the opposite which felt slightly more pointless.