It wasn\u2019t too long ago that Tinder took the world by storm, with it\u2019s easy formula to \u201cfind friendship. Love, and everything in between\u201d (Though let\u2019s be real, the \u201cin between\u201d part became it\u2019s primary purpose). However, the Tinder glory days are now well and truly over, and it is no longer the dating behemoth it once was. Here are 5 reasons why you should move on to another platform (or you know, maybe talk to someone in real life, you coward).<\/p>\n
Back in the day, matches used to roll out harder than Ludacris,but Tinder has continually changed it\u2019s algorithm for the worse. Now they\u2019re more akin to a slow dribble. Tinder has claimed that this is to encourage people to actually message rather than just endlessly match with people, but in doing so they\u2019ve bottlenecked their primary value proposition, which is the ease of making contact with large numbers. Even that\u00a0objective hasn\u2019t really been fulfilled\u00a0either. You have stacks of matches that have been sitting there idle for months. I know you do.<\/p>\n
Spoilers: They never spoke.<\/p>\n
Businesses have to make money, I get it. But Tinder is pulling an apple here, because it seems every new feature is designed to drain your wallet. Back in the day, Tinder Plus was a decent model. Then they tried to sell us boosts for FIVE DOLLARS EACH. Now they\u2019ve added Gold, which they\u2019ve marketed as the next level, but they\u2019ve integrated a caveat in that they move your amount of free boosts from one a week to one a month in an attempt to get you to cough up. They\u2019ve also added in ads (which are still on by default even for plus and gold users; cheeky). The Gold Version (Allowing you to see who\u2019s already liked you) Is pretty mediocre\u00a0anyway. It takes all the fun out of it.<\/p>\n
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The bots have become unbearable, and Tinder seems powerless to stop them. They used to be easy to spot, but they\u2019re now at a stage where they look legitimately real at first glance. It\u2019s incredibly annoying, and it\u2019s getting worse all the time.<\/p>\n
Tinder is old hat. When it arrived it was new and novel, but you can feel how jaded everyone is with it. It attracts the same amount of enthusiasm as a plate of cereal. Probably because of the above issues. Excluding Gosling. He loves that shit.<\/p>\n
Really. I get the attraction of Tinder. It seems great on paper, but the reality is that the service is losing attractiveness at an extremely high rate. Maybe if they fixed the above and became a bit more sensitive to their user experience then I wouldn\u2019t be writing this. As of now however, you should probably find some other way to get it on. Scary, I know.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t too long ago that Tinder took the world by storm, with it\u2019s easy formula to \u201cfind friendship. Love, and everything in between\u201d (Though let\u2019s be real, the \u201cin between\u201d part became it\u2019s primary purpose). However, the Tinder glory days are now well and truly over, and it is no longer the dating behemoth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22376,"featured_media":116503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[86],"tags":[279,620,618,619,621,617,622],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-116502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-dating","tag-dating-apps-tinder","tag-dating-tinder","tag-stop-tinder","tag-technology-tinder","tag-tinder","tag-tinder-use"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n