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Tinder tests letting users set a 'height preference'
(techcrunch.com)
No weight preference still? Lol
I don't think there's anything wrong with either but I agree, having a height without a weight preference seems a bit hypocritical.
Especially since weight can play key roles in your activity levels, and health whereas height does nothing
Yeah... I used to date plus size women exclusively. Now I am married to one. I had to go throught lots of skinny women to find what I wanted.
Like all dating apps they have a strong incentive to promote superficial short-term connections over long term relationships so they have repeated customers. The worst thing that can happen to a dating app is their users finding a long term partner.
Tinder started as a "hook-up" app, if they went back to that kind of marketing I would not find the company quite so reprehensible.
Dating and hookup apps are designed to be checked as frequently as possible, so that users can be shown advertisements or sold memberships. A great way to accomplish this is to play on people's insecurities. Do yourself a favor and leave the house every once in a while
Dating apps are horrible, but without them I would have never found a partner. I'm a very quiet person and almost none of my interests involve strangers. Same goes for the kind of person I was looking for. I only used the app for one or two weeks before meeting her so I was incredibly lucky. She had spent over a year on there without success before we met.
I'm ok as long as they add income & debts filters with real validation of this info :-)
I'm just surprised that there are still people using Tinder.
Tinder is an app where you look at pictures of people and on that basis alone decide whether to go out. It's even easier to lie about height than to take a misleading picture. I'm really not sure if this would make any difference at all. Everyone frustrated on tinder will continue to be exactly as frustrated on tinder while tinder squeezes them all.
I'm a woman and not on tinder, but I don't know why people don't like this. Anyone listing a height preference is not the kind of person you should be looking for, especially if you don't fit their preference imho. It's literally self filtering, though it did say it's not fully blocking or anything.
I know women who would've loved that feature and I would never suggest any of my friends date them. Even after they dated guys that didn't fit the criteria and amicably split, they still held firm to the idea. I think it's ok to have preferences, but this is dumb to filter for and people are dumb to want to match with these people.
So many ways to make fun of this.
How do they plan to verify the information? Bananas for scale?
What about other preferences, like dick or breast size?
This will turn the angry hobbits FURIOUS
Kidding aside, everyone should try dropping these kinds of apps anyways. They're bad for you.
Good luck dating without apps in this day and age. Not saying it's impossible or anything, but good fucking luck.
It's been working out fine for me. It takes longer is all.
Assuming you're a straight male (the dynamics are much different if not), then where do you meet women? Genuinely curious.
I did find my wife in there. Our son is almost 2.
That's great! I don't want to poo-poo success stories. That said, who knows if it's really the same app you were using when you met your partner (at least two years ago). AI alone has exploded in that time.
Funny, I found your wife there too almost three years ago.
Is that the best you can do? Put some effort into it.
How'd you know what she said afterwards???
Were you there too???
How long until those who lie about their height are called Trumps?
Well, nobody's looking at my photos and thinking "That's guy looks tall", unless they say add "for an Asian man... sorta," so really this is just saving us all some time.
This average height manlet here is glad to be off Tinder. It sucks. I'd honestly rather pay prostitutes. I've never done that, but seems better value for money if you value your time as much as money (and I personally value it more)
In a perfectly reasonable, civilized and rational world; this would be seen as an additional feature in "Bad taste".
There is no rational reason for the company to permit any kind of detailed filtering; the longer you're swiping through photos, the longer you use the app and the chance that you potentially give them money for services remains.
There is no rational reason to discriminate against people based on their height either. While it's quite natural to have preferences, generally speaking, you know when you find someone attractive. I don't think I've ever heard of someone genuinely only attracted to specifically only tall or short people; there's usually something else there behind the reason. That reason could be any number of things from feelings to experiences and more.
Attraction, much like people, is a complicated and not so straightforward thing. It's reason for being isn't based on rationality always, we don't always size up our mates the way a computer would. In general it's oftentimes emotional, and attractiveness can be something that happens when someone manages to emotionally convey an appearance or vibe that matches something the one feeling the attraction might be looking for.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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