Re:An app that limits technology in online dating
by ravenstine on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:17PM
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If I were to buy OKCupid, I'd do the following:
- Remove any features cloned from Tinder.
- Every major city would have a small office where singles can go to set up their profile and have a set of professional photos taken. Users can add other photos online, but their avatar has to be the one taken at the office. This would also help prevent fake profiles.
- Users will only visible or come up in search results if they are online, or by those they have replied to in PM.
- If a user doesn't go on any dates in 60 days, they are kicked off and have to go to their local office to get their account reinstated. (I'm most iffy on this one)
- Get rid of any existing compatibility profiling. No surveys. No "sex drive higher than average", or "less adventurous". All of that is horseshit.
Re:An app that limits technology in online dating
by skybrian on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:38PM
(#19693619)
Hmm, that photo office might itself become a singles hangout. It seems like a high-risk idea that could go surprisingly well or extremely badly depending on how it's done.
- Remove any features cloned from Tinder.
- Every major city would have a small office where singles can go to set up their profile and have a set of professional photos taken. Users can add other photos online, but their avatar has to be the one taken at the office. This would also help prevent fake profiles.
- Users will only visible or come up in search results if they are online, or by those they have replied to in PM.
- If a user doesn't go on any dates in 60 days, they are kicked off and have to go to their local office to get their account reinstated. (I'm most iffy on this one)
- Get rid of any existing compatibility profiling. No surveys. No "sex drive higher than average", or "less adventurous". All of that is horseshit.