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by polote 1974 days ago
> Compared to tinder, bumble has more serious people looking to date

Not really true, Bumble engages in less shitty behavior than Tinder, so they don't prevent you to match with the people who are compatible with you basically. Which is more likely to create a serious relationships. But the 24hr thing for matching doesnt work anymore, that just eliminates girls who only want more followers on insta.

But yeah overall the app works better than Tinder, because Tinder needs to capture as much money as possible from their user to be the most profitable as possible. Bumble doesn't have to, at least it didnt have to, now that they become public, they will become as bad

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Tinder is riddled with spam accounts for Insta and Snap. If you swipe through the women available you can then see the new accounts hitting the area. A lot of them are created in the middle of the night. Bio to Insta or being a FWB with a Snap account. The app stores should hold Match responsible for allowing them to lure dumb, lonely guys into fraud.
>"Not really true, Bumble engages in less shitty behavior than Tinder, so they don't prevent you to match with the people who are compatible with you basically."

Can you elaborate on this? What is Tinder doing in this respect? How does preventing matching compatible people allow them to capture more profit?

The more a user match with compatible people the more likely they will settle in an exclusive relationship, and thus quit Tinder, and thus quit being a paying customer.

So if you want more recurring paying customers, prevent them to meet with compatible people ;)

What they do ? Show you attractive girls but don't show your profile to them. Keep a 90/10 ratio of men to women on the app. Make you feel like there is an endless list of people to meet and all better than others. Tell you you have 99+ waiting likes (when in fact thats only the girls who liked you but you didnt like). Dont limit the number of guys that a girls can match. Dont delete matches that are inactive (push you to collect matches). Almost force you to choose a long term membership instead of a month, ...

Wow, that's pretty rotten. So has Bumble taken the opposite approach that although they will lose customer who have successfully met someone on the app those same people are also likely to recommend Bumble?