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Unless you are a paid member, you cannot even read messages sent to you. Also, their homepage is always a gigantic advertisement, with a tiny little bit of tex
by Goladus 17y ago
Unless you are a paid member, you cannot even read messages sent to you. Also, their homepage is always a gigantic advertisement, with a tiny little bit of text, "member sign in," up near the top. Old correspondence is deleted after something like 30 or 60 days. Pictures are limited in size.
Match.com is pretty lazy about retaining members and encouraging interaction and seems to prefer to focus on marketing rather than improving its core product. Okcupid is superior in almost every way. Match.com has made a few attempts at upgrading their services but they seem to have been mostly cosmetic or invisible/infrastructure changes. When I left, "recent views" was still questionably accurate, the send-email page still had no link back to the original profile (just a partial text dump of it), and generally poor use of screen space. Not as bad as eHarmony, but okcupid is better and free.
I met a few cool women through match.com, but finally got fed up with it. I don't care enough to sue but I have no sympathy for match.
- wglb 17y agoWell the match.com business model is a bit difficult. If their service is successful, two people meet and eventually take their profile down and leave match behind. There is no retention, because a successful experience removes two people from their customer list. In fact, there is a stage of dating that follows First Date: "I took my profile down". So attracting customers rather than the long-term experience would be their priority. I met my wife on match, and many mutual friends met their now spouse there.