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Dating apps compared include: Bumble, Coffee Meets Bagel, eHarmony, Friends Match Me, Hinge, JDate, Match, OkCupid, Plenty Of Fish, Tinder, and Zoosk.
If you have searched for your match on Match.com, you might have noticed it is actually buggy. When you increase the number of miles from your zip code in the distance location search, you expect there to be more, or at the very least the same, number of matches. But interestingly, and unfortunately for Match.com members, you actually get LESS member search results. Why is that? Makes you wonder what else is buggy in the match.com search results that could lead you to not find and meet your potential match. #badmath
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Seems like it is a trend with many dating apps and sites removing features with each new redesign, like with JDate removing the “language(s) you speak” search filter. OkCupid has followed suit and has removed the visitors feature this month from all accounts. So now no OkCupid members can check out who has visited their profile, whether they are a paid subscriber (A-List) or not. Interestingly, OkCupid posted the update on their blog by promoting it as a positive change for the OkCupid app and website:
We want to provide our members with the best experience possible. That’s why we’re always working to release innovative features (like our brand-new photo commenting), and improve existing ones. So this week, we removed visitors from all accounts because we realized that doing so makes OkCupid better.
Without the distraction of visitors, you can now focus on the people who like what they see on your profile and really want to get to know you. And when you’re focused on those people, your chances of higher quality connections improves. (via OkCupid blog post, “Why We’re Removing Visitors After a positive beta test, we’ve decided to remove visitors — here’s why”)
As a result of not showing members their profile visitors, members also cannot view a list of profiles they have viewed. Furthermore, this closes a workaround OkCupid members have used to try to figure out who has liked their profile, without paying for the “A-List” subscription. The free plans used to show a few of the profile visitors (much like LinkedIn) – but not the full list. So members who checked frequently, could try to figure out who liked their profile without paying for the A-List feature – a feature that also used to be free for everyone.
OkCupid members – and even subscribers – posted their complaints on the new change on the OkCupid Facebook page. Here are some of the top rated comments:
Daniel A.: I rely on the visitors because I not an A-lister so I can’t see who likes me!
August 8 at 12:57pm (36 likes so far)Martin-Éric R.: Sure enough, the goal probably was to entice a few more people to purchase A-list.
August 8 at 12:59pm (15 likes so far)Mike J.: OkCupid Despite your garbage beta test, a view is a sign of interest. Mild interest I agree, but interest nonetheless. I have been on and off your site almost since it started, I have met some great people, mostly because it used to have a great sense of community.
This latest move just makes each individual user yet more isolated and within a kind of small a bubble – you’re killing the site.While I’m on a rant:
What’s with the loss of filtering search results by new users?!! I live in a rural part of the UK and 50 miles is a long way on winding roads, especially since you calculate it as a b-line. When you say it’s 50 miles you can double that distance in reality.
Within that ’50’ mile radius I only have a couple of hundred potential matches and I know just about every face on the block.
I’m not interested in the match percentage, I not comparing people who have been on OKC for ages and answered loads of questions, I am looking for the two or three new faces each month, they may have a low match percentage, but they have not had time to answer a significant number of questions so by your own maths have a significant disadvantage.Actually, on that note, with the exception of bots and scams, I don’t see a lot new users recently.
August 11 at 3:11pm (7 likes so far)Kate L.: SO LAME… totally creepy for women. Thank you for making it even more predatorial. I don’t know who the hell you’re testing– maybe bro dudes? or maybe your financial team? Gives me less of a reason to ever long on. I’m more inclined to check out men who i see in my visitor thing. now— no reason to log on. COOL! Let me tell you also- how excruciatingly awful your tinder swipe thing is. GROSS. Maybe you should start listening to women- since you need them so it’s not a sausage fest.;)
OkCupid: With visitors gone, invisible browsing is now a free feature. This was something preventing people from connecting, because they didn’t want to appear in the list. If you have a safety concern, please write to support@okcupid.com ATTN Moderation. Thank you for your feedback!Kate L.: OkCupid It’s SO bad. WHATEVER–That’s a load of BS. Visitors was one of the only things connecting me to people that i was interested in, nobody is buying your line that it was preventing people from connecting.. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?? nonsense!
Frankly it was one of the last features that i liked.. your doubletake is freaking annoying– it shows me people from out of my area- I cannot even look up user names of people i do want to connect with— NOBODY is drinking your Kool-aid- AND- if you gave a crap about people’s safety- you’d have a way to flag people’s profiles who have NO photos and are predators. I won’t be writing to your damn support. It’s like you are doing everything you can to drive women from wanting to be on the site.But you know- what do i know- i’ve been using the site for a few years now– and the app and site has steadily been getting worse- every review i read agrees- you guys are tooting your own horn– “Invisible browsing is free??” what crap. LAMESAUCE. but you keep thinking it’s awesome– pry gonna cancel my account- because it’s SO awesome. Pretty soon it’s gonna be more of a sausage party than it already is. #nailinthecoffin
August 10 at 2:09pmGary A.: OkCupid everyone thinks that removing visitors is ridiculous. Bring it backJim N.: OkCupid – Invisible browsing was ALREADY a free feature, before you removed visitor listings… So trying to use that as the excuse for why you removed it shows how lame the excuse is. Being able to browse invisibly, while still being able to see who visited YOU, was the only A-list feature.Mike J. “This was something preventing people from connecting” Garbage, total garbage. What evidence do you base that on and are you prepared to share that evidence?
In fact the majority of people on your site refused to pay for anonymous browsing, which indicates just how much they cared about being “in the list”.
Many of us even used it as a means of making first contact, if they look back that is possibly an expression of mild interest, if they look back twice then it’s at least worth a message.
Aside from all that Kate L.’s point was well made – you do woman a disservice. The people most likely to not want to not be on “the lists” are stalkers, especially ones that the stalked person might recognise. Rather that make anonymous browsing available to everyone for free you should make it not available at any price.
If you have nothing to hide you don’t mind being on “the lists”, in fact it may well work to your advantage. It certainly has mine.
This is all a rather obvious and thinly disguised attempt to get people to cough up money for people being able to see ‘likes’.
August 12 at 11:25amPhillip S.: OkCupid Do not LIE to your user base, do not INSULT THE INTELLIGENCE of your user base.
“With visitors gone, invisible browsing is now a free feature. This was something preventing people from connecting, because they didn’t want to appear in the list.”
1.) “invisible browsing is *now* a free feature”. With this line, you have indirectly claimed that invisible browsing was NOT a free feature when Visitors existed. This is a LIE. Invisible browsing WAS a free feature already available to everyone. Do not LIE.
2.) “This was something preventing people from connecting, because they didn’t want to appear in the list.” With this line, you make the assertion that a connection would be PREVENTED because you appear as a Visitor when you visit someone. BLATANT LIE, because you know for a fact that this is false.
You KNOW that 1 visit = Someone liked your thumbnail enough to view you.
You KNOW that 3+ visits close together = Someone probably likes you because they are navigating your page, going to different areas (questions, etc), and re-loading your page again. This is a strong indication of interest.You KNOW this. And you KNOW that your USERS know this.
Go ahead, Keep lying to your users and keep talking to them like they’re idiots. Wonderful business strategy!
August 15 at 3:45pmCindy B.: The above comments are so spot on. Without Visitors, Cupid sucks big time now. Will never pay to see stupid “Likes”.
You can read lots and lots of more complaints on OkCupid’s Facebook page. Some very good points made.
Some comments touch on the belief that OkCupid has rolled out this visitor feature cancellation to make more money – to entice members to pay to at least view who has liked them. Another business motive some say is to entice OkCupid users to subscribe to the other dating site owned by the same company, IAC Match Group: Match.com. Greg Blatt, CEO of IAC suggested in the IAC press release at the time of Match’s $50 million acquisition of OkCupid that match.com is the website with a “broader feature set”:
“We know that many people who start out on advertising-based sites ultimately develop an appetite for the broader feature set and more committed community, which subscription sites like Match.com and Chemistry.com offer, creating a true complimentary relationship between our various business models. 2010 saw record growth both for Match and OkCupid, and we believe coordinating the adjacent business models will help fuel continued growth for both. This acquisition therefore goes a long way toward our objectives of bringing new people into the online dating world, offering the ability to meet in whatever type of online setting, and at whatever commitment level, our members desire, and facilitating a seamless evolution of the online dating experience without ever having to leave our portfolio of sites.”
(via “IAC’s Match.com Acquires OkCupid“, FEBRUARY 2, 2011)
This OkCupid visitors list feature cancellation does take away from OkCupid’s feature set – on match.com subscribed members can view who has checked out their profile. And each new OkCupid website / app update is removing more features, as one OkCupid member complained on Facebook of not being able to sort members by who’s new.
You can sort members by their join date and activity date – and lots of other ways – on Friends Match Me for free. You can also view who’s checking you out on Friends Match Me, just as you can check out who favorited you on Friends Match Me – and it’s all free! You can also set your viewing/favoriting account activity private through your privacy settings if you would like. Also free. Friends Match Me is a 100% totally free dating app after all. Join now at www.friendsmatchme.com, or download our free dating app on Google Play or the App Store – just search for “friendsmatchme”.
OkCupid routinely gathers member answers to quiz questions and publicizes their statistics. One of the latest findings they share is on first date hookups:
46% of OkCupid users say they’d consider sleeping with someone on the first date, as opposed to the 40% who say they wouldn’t. (14% skipped the question).
(via OkCupid blog post, “Why More People Are Having Sex on the First Date” on July 5, 2017)
This might imply that OkCupid is a “hookup” dating app, or one may argue that perhaps it just means that their members are open minded as to what they may be open to given certain circumstances. Rewind though a few more months back, and OkCupid provides some clarity with more of these insights:
today only 43% of men and 17% of women say they enjoy meaningless sex; that’s compared to 48% of men and 27% of women in 2008. We also looked at the willingness of men and women to date someone just for the sex. In 2008, 55% of men and 29% of women would; nowadays, those numbers have dropped to 40% and 19% respectively.
(via OkCupid blog post, “In 2017, Substance Is In. Casual Sex Is Out.“, on February 7, 2017)
What do you think about those statistics on OkCupid members, directly from OkCupid?
Besides comparing quiz answers, members on OkCupid can know if a fellow member is in it just for “casual sex”, as that is a profile option to mark, for types of relationships you are looking for. So, in any case, OkCupid is a good site to try if that is your aim.
If you are looking for more substantive relationships, Friends Match Me is a good choice for you, and unlike OkCupid, it is totally free. (OkCupid used to be totally free.) Friends Match Me provides the profile question “Type(s) of Relationships looking for:”, with the answers: Date, A Long Term Relationship, Marriage, Marriage & Children, Friend, Actvity Partner. Join now at www.friendsmatchme.com, or download our free dating app on Google Play or the App Store – just search for “friendsmatchme”.
Jdate, the Jewish dating site/app advertised now as the site to “Find your special Jewish someone.” has redesigned their website again – and again has omitted features for its members. With each new website redesign, the Jdate site is getting more and more like the basic hot or not dating apps that lack search tools for finding your special someone. The new Jdate site design still has search tools – but not as much as before, and certainly not as much as Friends Match Me. For example, on Jdate you can no longer search for members that speak certain languages. The less advanced the search is, the harder it can get to find your match. It’s almost like the Jdate pool is getting smaller and they have removed search criteria to increase your search results and make it appear like the paid site has more activity than it actually has. Just a thought. Less is not more here.
You can find Jdate member feedback regarding their new site/app redesign, on Facebook and Twitter. The feedback is a resounding fail, on design and functionality, not to mention bugs in the site/app:
From Brian W. on @JDate page on Facebook, August 3:
The new app is awful. All of my messages were lost
From Eric W. on @JDate page on Facebook, August 3:
Last night’s JDate website and mobile app rollout leaves users with website and mobile apps which are not well tested and riddled with issues! I’m a Software Engineer and I’ve been through many release cycles and I am astounded at how bad this is!
You chose prime time in North America to release it!
The new app has some CRITICAL and obvious bugs to BASIC features, such as reading messages and the layout of pages.
It’s really hard to read user profiles now that all the section headers are gone and the text just becomes a long ramble. Your old pages were formatted in a very readable way!
You’ve replaced searchable text on web pages with non-searchable icons. And hovering over icons doesn’t pop up help text so some icons are just a mystery! (I’m sure this violates accessibility standards, by the way.)
JDate is not inexpensive and now I’m wondering where the money is going: It clearly didn’t go into software quality!
Brando F. on @JDate page on Facebook, August 7:
Dear JDATE,
Your new website design and functionality sucks. You have eliminated much of the functionality that made it so easy to use JDATE. Remember there are many older 30-40+ people that use the JDATE website. It seems as if you have re-designed your website towards the under 30 something crowd. I know several people 30-40+ that are canceling their subscriptions as your website has become a pain in the ass to use.The following is a list of things that you have eliminated or changed or reduced the functionality that now make your website difficult if not a pain in the ass to use to use:
1) There is no longer a sent message folder. I like to see only my sent message in one folder and can no longer do so.
2) And when I send a Flirt it shows up in my unread folder. This should show up in a sent message folder.
3) There is no longer a way for me to delete my messages. Note, Archive saves them, it does not delete them. If I want to delete them then I should be able to do that and not save them via archive. I don’t want my private messages to other people stored forever in some stupid archive.
4) I can no longer look up a member my their member name? There is no reason for the loss of this functionality.
5) I can no longer send an instant message to someone online. This should be separate from an email message.
6) I no longer seem to get my 2 daily matches to my email address.
7) The website does not show items in a grid layout anymore. I use a computer not a cell phone and it is impossible the new layout as I constantly have to scroll down.
8) The new website is apparently very slow.
9) I tried to get the chat function to contact your customer service people but there doesn’t seem to be a chat button.
10) The contents of my profile have been thrown together into one big text string. There used to be a nice layout with separate sections. This is one of the biggest mistakes you have made. The new online profiles have a lousy layout. There is a ton of white space.
And here’s some on Twitter:
It seems like Jdate should provide refunds for members wanting to cancel their subscriptions early because they signed up for something, paid for it, and now have something else very different, lacking in quality and functionality. It’s not a bait and switch because Jdate has the prerogative to redesign their site as they find fit, but it’s not good business for sure. Members paid for a service and are not receiving what they paid for and tested with this new website/app redesign. Apparently Jdate is not providing refunds, just advises to turn the member subscription auto-renew option off, and is not planning on adding back functionality they removed. There will probably be a lot of member subscription cancellations, as the member feedback suggest. Especially if Jdate does not listen to the feedback.
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A special June 24 wedding ceremony for a kindergarten/first grade teacher, Marielle Slagel Keller, at IPS Butler Lab School in Indianapolis:
“They’re the kids that mean the most to me. They’re a part of who I am,” Marielle Slagel Keller, 25, told ABC News.
…“There were a couple that shielded their eyes when we kissed,” she recalled.
…“I’m really close to their families, too,” she explained. “They supported me throughout this wedding planning process, so it wouldn’t have been right to not have them be there the day of.”
“To have those kids walk down the aisle for me was really special. There were a lot of tears,” she added.
(via “Teacher invites 20 of her students to serve as flower girls, ring bearers in her wedding“)
Indianapolis teacher Marielle Slagel Keller and Mike Keller
Husband Mike supporting his wife:
“I said, ‘This is lovely,’ but in the back of my mind, I’m thinking, ‘There’s a 25 percent chance this will go according to plan,” Mike Keller, 26, told ABC News. “I thought, ‘This is going to be interesting: a herd of 6-year-olds coming down the aisle in this very important moment.'”
“But she really had a passion for it on this special day, and I’m glad she went with it. It ended up being perfect,” he added.
A very passionate teacher!
Congratulations!
There are over 100 million people all around the world who speak Farsi, a language also known to many as “Persian”. Over 100 million – yet, you cannot choose it as a language you speak, to be added to your profile, or search for other members who speak it on match.com. You can on Friends Match Me; it is one of 32 languages, besides an “Other” option. Why doesn’t match.com include Persian/Farsi as a language option? The paid dating site match.com has 18 languages you can choose from as a member to add to your profile and to do searches on. Strangely, while languages spoken by 5-10 milltion people around the world get their own language category on match.com, a language spoken by over 100 million people around the world gets grouped in with the “Other” category. Member site feedback has not changed match.com’s mind about adding Persian/Farsi as a language option. We will forward this blog post to match.com for a response and keep you posted!
Love will find its way through all languages on its own, as Persian Poet Rumi says, but it’s nice to know which languages you can communicate in :-)
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