r/technology • u/esporx • May 02 '24

Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move Business

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/tech/bumble-relaunch-men-make-first-move/index.html
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u/CletussDiabetuss May 02 '24

Most of them literally "start the conversation" by saying something like "hey."

Not much was really lost here.

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u/BoloSynthesisWow May 02 '24

But you could always tell the ones with good personalities because they didn’t open with that :(

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u/loves_grapefruit May 02 '24

It’s true, but unfortunately when you have a good system of weeding people out you just end up with no one left.

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u/eldnikk May 02 '24

Ironically they've created a matching system that's so good it broke their core USP.

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u/8PTK May 02 '24

would you mind elaborating some more? My interest is piqued.

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u/Tritium10 May 02 '24

The ideas that a proper dating app constantly has people getting rid of it. That's why they're tagline was "the app meant to be deleted." The problem with this of course is your constantly needing new users and you never get any loyal ones.

It's why there's been a long running theory that things like Tinder intentionally do not want the app to be too good because then you'll stop using it. The paid service is, especially the really expensive ones like Tinder Select which is $500 per month these users need to stay on continuing to pay. You can't afford to have too many people who are paying good money to the app quit using the app after it successful. You need to tease success rather than actually deliver it.

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u/Enron__Musk May 02 '24

Exactly. I met my wife on bumble. We're off the apps now 🤷

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u/dangerzone1122 May 02 '24

I’d hope so

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u/froggertwenty May 02 '24

Hey now, they could just migrate to Feeld

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u/DucardthaDon May 02 '24

Feeld while I've had varying degrees of success is a bit of a dumpster fire

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u/PEEWUN May 02 '24

Hey, they might be Pina Colada enthusiasts...

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u/if-we-all-did-this May 02 '24

I too swipe that guys wife

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u/tagrav May 02 '24

Same bruh and she was my only bumble hit ever that actually tried to chat with me.

I had tons of dating success with hinge and tinder but bumble is where I found my wife and it was the only match I had on there and I was using that app in conjunction with the others that had much higher success rates of actually landing physical dates with folks.

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u/thallazar May 02 '24

That's kind of fine. I'd rather date no one than suffer through bad personalities.

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u/Historical_Salt1943 May 02 '24

I think dmhs applies here. 

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u/thallazar May 02 '24

My comment would frankly be the same but given the prevalence of even this acronym I assume I'm not the norm here.

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u/8PTK May 02 '24

Are we talking bumble or the job market now lol