This site has deteriorated to the point where it's full of scammers and there are hardly any local matches anymore. I imagine it's losing huge amounts of money. I expect it to be gone by 2030. But what's really going on behind the scenes? Why was it stripped of all the features that made it fun and effective?
This site has deteriorated to the point where it's full of scammers and there are hardly any local matches anymore. I imagine it's losing huge amounts of money. I expect it to be gone by 2030. But what's really going on behind the scenes? Why was it stripped of all the features that made it fun and effective?
How to register on OkCupid in a country that does not support it, I try to register from my laptop, but after confirming my phone number, I am thrown to the main page, does anybody know what is the problem?
Here is video evidence of just how the OkCupid app purposefully lies and tries to manipulate you and isn't an honest app. I have my dating distance preference set to 250 miles. See for yourself how the app tries to trick me...
Hello. This is my first post on this and I have recently joined Okcupid.
So, I have noticed my preferences aren't in effect when I swipe on new people. So for starters. I have put I am interested in men, yet I am getting both men and women. Also, I have put down the distance to 10KM. However, I am seeing people cross the country. I am in Liverpool, UK and I am matching either people in Newport, which is way over 10km.
Does anyone else have or had this issue? If so, how can I solve it?
As the title says, I have literalu hundreds of likes from foreign women. Most of them live in Africa or Asia, this is really annoying. How do I stop this from happening?
I swear to god, I am so tired of this app not having a proper feature which checks people's location.
Like a good 80% of profiles are "often change my location" or "I actually live in the Philippines" or whatever. Even assuming these aren't scam accounts, I'm so tired of constantly seeing accounts of people that live nowhere near me.
I don't want to date someone on the other side of the world! I want to date someone who lives within a certain amount of km of me!
Having the app check people's location would solve this incredibly annoying problem of location changers. And apps like Tinder already have it, so clearly it's not some kind of technological marvel that they couldn't possibly do.
Oh, and while they're at it, add a proper "match by language" feature. I live near a border and I'm also tired of swiping through people who don't even speak my language.
Seriously all things taken together a good 90% of swipes are just completely pointless because they either live nowhere near me or don't speak my language or both.
Also, not to be a boomer, but I first used this app back in 2015. The app was great back then. No stupid swiping stuff, you just looked through a list and liked people at will and sent anyone you were interested in a message. It all worked great and I found a girlfriend quite quickly that time.
Then the previous time I used it was in 2022. Took me a lot longer to find someone that time due to the swiping stuff, but I did find someone after a while.
And then now's the third time I'm using it and it really feels like it has become nearly useless. Just constant either scam accounts or accounts switching locations outnumbering every other type of account.
This turned into much more of a rant than I intended. Anyway, point is: Them adding a proper location check feature would make this app so much more enjoyable to use. And if they added a language match feature and got rid of the swipes it would easily be the best dating app again as it was back in 2015.
I mostly cruise OKC on my pc so it's super easy. Literally just one extra click to block instead, and then I never have to see that profile again, since swiping left doesn't actually prevent you from seeing that profile again. It just removes them from the current queue until the next time they log in, and it puts them back in line again.
So this way, I am ACTUALLY whittling down the number of profiles I see when I log in, instead of just cycling through the same people who logged in recently that I have already disregarded. I mean we all know that OKC is pretty trash these days both in functionality and in the people/bots/scammers using it, so this way at least I am swiping through the possibilities as quickly as possible, so as not to waste time.
I imagine this might be a poor route if I was someone who was just looking for anybody, like really unselective hookup folks, but at my age I have an extremely definitive set of ideas about what I am looking for, which makes disregarding many people a quick decision.
So after a long time of mostly just swiping left, I decided to start blocking profiles I know for a fact I am not interested in at all instead, which is very nearly all of them in my area for some reason (SF Bay Area). Lots of bots/fake accounts, single mothers, women living in other countries, and just women with a low amount of traditional beauty (Obviously at least partly my opinion). For that last one I would guess it's because traditionally beautiful women get spammed the most and OKC has tons of those so they would be driven away the fastest. I would guess the better perspective dates in my area are probably on better apps with less bots like Coffee Meets Bagel or Bumble, which I will have to look into for sure.
So basically whenever I don't have my premium on and pay money to this scam shit app it matches me with 20+ people.
I thought I'd do a little experiment last 2 months and pay the sub cancel it and see what happens the day/week after cancellation.
Lo and behold every time the sub ran out (yesterday) I got a flux of people matching with me after dry streaks of sometimes 2 weeks of no matches.
What a scam shit app lmao
I'll admit I'm like a 4-7 rating, but really it's ridiculous. I have 584 likes and 99% of them are not in my country. This app has to be the most garbage POS i've used in a long time. Like sure you "like" me and you live in the Phillipines / Nigeria / Kenya, fuck off I'm not giving you a free pass to my country. So fucking sick of 0 quality control. I'll admit I've met 1 or 2 genuine people on this app but it's so rare. It's exhausting trying to filter out all these fake profiles trying to look for a handout. Like is your home country so shit you have to lie? Pretending like you actually care about the people you "like". Sure long distance relationships might work for a tiny tiny minority (and we're talking 1000s of miles here, the longest possible relationships), but realistically you're just looking for money. This isn't even touching on the completely fake accounts which are just scammers in pig butchering schemes. God I hate online dating.
here read the article of the lawsuit for yourself. See if anything in the lawsuit sounds familiar to your own experience using these scummy dating apps. Do not waste your time or money on these apps. They used to work when they we just founded, and owned by small independent companies, but they have all been bought up by Match Group and hollowed out on purpose.
Go here, and download their annual SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) 10-k form filing. In that document (that they must file every year, because they are a public company) there is a section called "Risk Factors" in the Table of Contents. Its where the executive team write about what the risk factors to their business is and continued profits are. Click on that and enjoy the read. Some interesting, eye opening stuff directly from the executive team. You're Welcome.
App is filled with people faking their location.
Weather it’s driving or biking or even taking the bus or Uber
How far is too far for you to consider starting a relationship / planning a date?
I’ll go first
My max miles is with 100-120 miles and I think anything more than that is honestly a drag
And yes by car
I have live in Los Angeles and had some days in San Diego but nothing official - it was more due to personal differences and the spark not being there - nothing with distance
Still interested in seeing how all far yall are willing to drive to meet someone ?
I'm really surprised OkCupid isn't talked about more when it comes to dating apps. I've tried a lot of apps multiple times with no luck. I wanted to give the dating app one more shot before giving up dating for a couple of years and I met the most amazing man. We scored 98% match out of over a hundred questions and we just mesh perfectly. We've been together for six months and still going strong. I've never met anyone who understands me and I understand as much as we do each other. I absolutely LOVE all the questions you can answer on OkC because it really helps with matches and deciding if someone could potentially be a good fit for you. It was also kind of a fun way to pass the time answering questions. I don't get all the love for Tinder when it's so insanely superficial just swiping based on some pics and a sentence or two.
Hello,
I (F28) was banned from OkCupid in January for absolutely no reason. I barely talked to any guys and only met 1 I later became friends with. I am a heterosexual woman and I subscribed to OkCupid especially because (at least in France) it has the reputation to be « safer » for women. I tried to contact them but they said I violated the rules and my account is terminated.
Is there any way to know why I have been banned?
