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You missed the most important anti-pattern that exists in all of Match's dating apps: limited swipes. The entire foundational purpose of dating apps is to make
by thomastjeffery 4y ago
You missed the most important anti-pattern that exists in all of Match's dating apps: limited swipes.
The entire foundational purpose of dating apps is to make the numbers game tractable.
By limiting the amount of swipes you can do, you limit the amount of people you can contact. By paywalling swipes, you limit the amount of people who can contact you.
Somehow the only popular dating apps are the ones literally designed to fail.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoI think limiting them is a good idea--you have to be selective about who you approach rather than using a shotgun. However, I think there should be a left/right/maybe system. (Perhaps there is--I've been off the market since before apps were a thing.)
- thomastjeffery 4y agoWhy? You only get to talk to matches anyway. Most users are not getting very many matches.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoSo you can go through and select the best of the offerings to swipe right on.
- thomastjeffery 4y agoThat puts the onus on Tinder/Hinge/etc. to find the best "offerings" to present me. In my, and most others', experience, that doesn't work out well. Give me all the options I have time for. If you really are good at deciding what matches will work best for me, then present them first. There is no good reason to hide the options you think won't work out for me: the failure case is not matching, and that is painless.