There are thousands of online dating platforms. They offer high chances of success. But I would also like to have more support in finding and choosing a partner. For example, how I can quickly and easily see whether the other person really suits me.
And what do you want from an online dating platform?
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Good question not really sure. You’d think it would be the booming era of dating with these apps but all it did was make people date less and fake a lifestyle and act to good to respond to each other. 🙊
if by “high chance of success” you mean “high single digits” lmao. OLD is a bad joke and at this point I’m completely turned off to it. I got back into it during the lockdowns and it was just as dismal as ever, plenty of matches but tons of 1-3 word responses in conversations that went nowhere.
you wanna know what would make a good dating app? no swiping, no games, just a search function. let me see who’s single in my area and would be interested in me, have a reporting system for weeding out catfishers or people lying about age/kids/etc. you enter in your profile info and search within a radius of your zip code, and see only other users whose profile info fits your search parameters and you meet their basic parameters. simple message service to get conversations started. I don’t know a ton about programming but I imagine such a filtered search function app would be much simpler and cheaper to program and run effectively vs the algorithms used in most dating apps
Online dating cannot be both profitable and effective for the majority of people.
1. Only shows people that match search criteria and you match theirs. Also don’t expand the search results when it runs out without asking first.
2. Viewable reviews and stats on people (i.e. Person X has swiped right on % of profiles viewed, matched with %, replied to % of messages, and was last online ZHrs ago.)
3. Doesn’t show pictures until after you match and maybe even send a certain number of messages back and forth.
Another one that I thought could be cool is one that skips all the swiping and messaging. Instead it would take all of your input (a lot of input) and just tell you a time and place for a date. Then when it detects that you arrived it would tell/show you who you are looking for. Basically a blind date set up by a computer. You would have to have vetted locations and/or members and I doubt this would be profitable on a free app but it could be fun.
a completely open algorithm where you know exactly how it works, what ‘invisible’ score you have, how many
profiles you’ve been shown to, how many left swipes etc.
I think one the biggest problems with the apps is that they offer subscription models but it is completely intransparent (and not verifiable!) for the user how their parameters are actually adjusted after making a purchase.
This is recipe for fraud and scamming.