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Isn’t turning 40 just likely to remove you from all users filtering up to 39, which sounds like a natural setting many users would choose?

latchkey 3y ago
Often those settings are ignored or fuzzy. Tinder also doesn't show you what someone else's settings are, so you can't game that. When I'd set my age ranges to 30+, I'd still see people younger than that because the person on the other end would put older ranges in. It is kind of a two way fuzzy search engine. I built a super popular dating app right before Tinder came onto the market... our search was intentionally pretty fuzzy in this regard.
- water9 3y ago
  No, it’s not. You’re either both in each other’s ranges or one of you has the selection that says sometimes show people outside this range
  - latchkey 3y ago
    Show me the code.
    - water9 3y ago
      If you could see the code, that’s the code you’d want to look at? I wanna see what my world ranking is lol
      - latchkey 3y ago
        My point is show me the proof. None of the details of how their app works are public and you're telling me what I've seen from personal experience, isn't true.
        Gud 3y ago
        What you describe matches perfectly with most users just putting their preferred age to 25-40 or something. No need to blame Tinder here.
        latchkey 3y ago
        No kidding. I'm not blaming Tinder, I'm describing my experience.
        Kerb_ 3y ago
        Unless I'm missing something, you haven't proved it's fuzzy either though. Many of these apps have a "make this setting strict" switch for age and distance, that makes both of you half right.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Maybe the part you're missing is that we are talking about Tinder from the response to the OP, downwards. We are not fuzzily talking about 'many of these apps'.
        Kerb_ 3y ago
        Maybe the part you're missing from my comment is that you have proven just as little yourself, and there is precedent for both. Because you want to ignore that and nitpick that I mentioned other apps doing the same thing, as if that prevents Tinder from doing it, I went out of my way to get a screenshot of my own Tinder settings. What do you know? It's right here. "Only show people in this range" https://imgur.com/a/yt34L2b https://imgur.com/a/yt34L2b Upon further reflection, I'm just going with "they were actually correct".
        latchkey 3y ago
        Nice that they finally added that feature. I've been in a relationship for the last N years and haven't looked at the app at all. So yea... maybe they are actually correct, now.
  - LtWorf 3y ago
    I worked for a dating app. They are scum. Having worked there I could game their algorithms quite well.
    - latchkey 3y ago
      #metoo

latchkey 3y ago

Often those settings are ignored or fuzzy. Tinder also doesn't show you what someone else's settings are, so you can't game that. When I'd set my age ranges to 30+, I'd still see people younger than that because the person on the other end would put older ranges in. It is kind of a two way fuzzy search engine. I built a super popular dating app right before Tinder came onto the market... our search was intentionally pretty fuzzy in this regard.

water9 3y ago
No, it’s not. You’re either both in each other’s ranges or one of you has the selection that says sometimes show people outside this range
- latchkey 3y ago
  Show me the code.
  - water9 3y ago
    If you could see the code, that’s the code you’d want to look at? I wanna see what my world ranking is lol
    - latchkey 3y ago
      My point is show me the proof. None of the details of how their app works are public and you're telling me what I've seen from personal experience, isn't true.
      - Gud 3y ago
        What you describe matches perfectly with most users just putting their preferred age to 25-40 or something. No need to blame Tinder here.
        latchkey 3y ago
        No kidding. I'm not blaming Tinder, I'm describing my experience.
      - Kerb_ 3y ago
        Unless I'm missing something, you haven't proved it's fuzzy either though. Many of these apps have a "make this setting strict" switch for age and distance, that makes both of you half right.
        latchkey 3y ago
        Maybe the part you're missing is that we are talking about Tinder from the response to the OP, downwards. We are not fuzzily talking about 'many of these apps'.
        Kerb_ 3y ago
        Maybe the part you're missing from my comment is that you have proven just as little yourself, and there is precedent for both. Because you want to ignore that and nitpick that I mentioned other apps doing the same thing, as if that prevents Tinder from doing it, I went out of my way to get a screenshot of my own Tinder settings. What do you know? It's right here. "Only show people in this range" https://imgur.com/a/yt34L2b https://imgur.com/a/yt34L2b Upon further reflection, I'm just going with "they were actually correct".
        latchkey 3y ago
        Nice that they finally added that feature. I've been in a relationship for the last N years and haven't looked at the app at all. So yea... maybe they are actually correct, now.
- LtWorf 3y ago
  I worked for a dating app. They are scum. Having worked there I could game their algorithms quite well.
  - latchkey 3y ago
    #metoo