[Euphorbium]

okcupid was a perfect app before match bought them and ruined it.

[crooked-v]

That's exactly it. As soon as any dating app has significant traction, Match buys it out and Tinder-ifies it to extract more money from the userbase while coasting on the previous brand value.

[mike_hearn]

It obviously wasn't perfect for the people running it, otherwise they wouldn't have sold it to their competitors.