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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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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.