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Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by nicbou on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:01AM (#38056392)
OkCupid was great in those years. I remember how each person felt like a nuanced individual and not like the elevator pitch of a person.

Since then I've only been meeting people in real life. I agree that using tindr felt miserable and probably still does.

Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by throw__away7391 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:23AM (#38056956)
I haven't used it in a while, but I thought Tinder was great, at least for men. I thought that on OkCupid a lot of people got really narcissistic with writing an about themselves (and getting validation for it) taking a lot of the focus. I had long chats that went nowhere on OkCupid, but lots of IRL dates on Tinder.
Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by ProllyInfamous on Sunday October 29, 2023 @08:16AM (#38057844)
I have not used any dating app in the past decade. OKC was last platform, while in graduate school. I LOVED the "percent match" but across multiple profiles (over a few years) I learned how "to game" their system by only answering certain impactful (but not damaging) questions.

If you have not read Christian Rudder's "DATACLISM" book (he is a co-founder of Match group, writing on their data analytics blog), it is FULL of "human condition", via charts/diagrams/analysis.

My past two relationships have been via dating neighbors, which I do not actually recommend (as more successful).

Re:'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love wit... by nunez on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:16AM (#38065621)
OkCupid was awesome. I met my wife there ten years ago. We were a 93% match! Had many of the same (or similar) answers to the personality questions.

Interestingly, a few months before meeting my now wife, I dated a girl I met on Meetup who also happened to be on Match. Our relationship only lasted a few months. We were a 72% match or something like that. Go figure!