Dating apps: which problems do you see with them and how could they be improved? (fedia.io)

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Dating apps are often a miserable experience for the participants, however for some reason they are quite popular and at times can be quite addictive.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

One of the biggest problems is how shallow dating apps are, incentivising you to make split second decisions about others based on a couple of pictures and a small blurb of text that most people just waste on a movie quote they like. And there's really no incentive on most of them to take your time and be thoughtful about trying to match. They prioritize quantity over quality.

Honestly I think something like Bumble's old Speed Dating feature would work really well if you built an entire dating app around it and it had a critical mass of users. When it was a thing, I used it and it led to way more matches (and hotter matches) than I ever got simply by swiping. Because it forces a minimum level of interaction between the people before they decide if they like each other.

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