I immediately dropped everything to read this blog post. I have been waiting for 3 years! I am fascinated with the data and science behind human behaviour, and their blog posts were (now are) always really interesting.

This!

Interesting that the author has a plug at the bottom for his new book, which he says he's been working on for the past 3 years. I guess his book writing got in the way of blogging.

> I guess his book writing got in the way of blogging.

There were a number of factors (which I've explained elsewhere in my comment history). That's part of it, but another factor was that, in 2010, there were 2.5 people working full-time[0] on doing research for OkTrends.

The blog posts took a lot of work. "The Real Stuff White People Like"[1] took almost two months of my time, plus some from Max and Christian as well. (Much like the product design process, since we didn't start each post off with a clear end result in mind, not all the work was visible in the final product).

I left to go back to school. Max ended up taking on more responsibility for other data/stats work, which slowed the pace a bit, and he left at the beginning of 2012 to do his own stuff.

People asked me for the last three years whether the reason OkTrends hadn't posted since 2011 was because of the Match.com acquisition and whether Match shut them down and I had to tell everyone "No, trust me, they're still around! It's just a coincidence!". Thankfully I no longer have to. :)

[0] 2.5 full-time means: Two of us full-time, as well as Christian, though he split his work time between OkTrends (the blog) and other stuff.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-peopl...

I had only heard about the studies but never took time to read the blog posts. I think I've spent the better part of the past two hours on there. Great stuff and always interesting to see people doing experiments like this (and making them open and 'fun'). A blog post every few months with as much in-depth research is something to look forward to.

It seemed to me the company being acquired by Match.com got in the way of the blogging.

Yeah, I just started reading all the older blog posts and they are really interesting!

I'm still mad they removed the blog post on the success rates of paid dating services a few days after being acquired by Match.com (I think it was)

In case you wanted to read it again, here's a Wayback Machine link [1].

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20101006104124/http://blog.okcupi...

It is still true, and even before they wrote the blog post, that used to be my answer to friends' question, "which is better?". I would say, think about it: Match makes money the longer you stay in the system! Then it would dawn on them that they were the product.

I hope it sticks around! They're so fascinating.

> They haven't updated their blog since April 2011.

I think that's around the time they were bought out by Match.com .