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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps (www.theguardian.com)
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‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps::For a decade, apps have dominated dating. But now singles are growing tired of swiping and are looking for new ways to meet people – or reverting to old ones

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

It was actually OkCupid.

They also did one where they looked at how men and women rate each other on looks, and found that women rate a whopping 80% of men as below average attractiveness.

This was made back when you could rate profiles out of 5 stars.

Archived link to that blog post

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I stand corrected. I used both back in the day. I even met my wife on there! Somehow I got the 2 swapped in my mind.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The way I remember them is that POF had a horrendous turquoise website design and looked like a circa-2003 webpage that hadn't been updated in years, while Okcupid was a lot more competently designed.

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