The "without pictures" concept is fine, but why did you choose to model the user profile after a CV? What do you think are the benefits over, say, OKC's approach?
Probably less subjectivity in how to answer.
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#32I applaud the attempt to innovate in the dating world which tends to be solely focused on looks.
But sexual attraction is an important part of relationships, so going in blind is inherently risky (from a time utilization perspective). With old school blind dates, your date is friend/family selected so some level of filtering is already done for you.
I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there are even those that get catfished, so it's always worth trying something else out.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, people who aren't attractive by your standards might want someone to love too. Just think, people might not have to swipe left as often!
There is nothing in what I have said and what you have said that actually conflicts in a factual way. On further reflection, this is because you haven't actually said much other than "boo-hiss".
Friendly suggestion that you review this before @dang comes along: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#34The little two person icon in the top right apparently generates a random result. It's very much not obvious what that does at first glance, it appears to be a user account or login type icon. It needs a clear, random element indicator to it.
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#35Although I'm personally done with dating sites, I'm glad to see someone else had this idea, and actually made it. But please consider not making all data go through Google (analytics (which can be blocked) and firestore (which is required)) and allow logins without Google or Facebook accounts. Sharing browsing data of a dating site with a third-party should be considered a privacy issue.
I'm pretty keen to date someone who blocks Google analytics by default. How does one find such a person? Is there room for a dating site that shadowbans anyone who willfully accepts the current state of surveillance capitalism?
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#36In 1 month: Dating Site Without Pictures, But With Voice Recording In 3 months: Dating Site With Pictures, But Only Of Eyes In 6 months: Dating Site With Pictures, Eyes and Nose In 12 months: name change to ohmymember.com (adult site)
13 months: profit
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#38Although I'm personally done with dating sites, I'm glad to see someone else had this idea, and actually made it. But please consider not making all data go through Google (analytics (which can be blocked) and firestore (which is required)) and allow logins without Google or Facebook accounts. Sharing browsing data of a dating site with a third-party should be considered a privacy issue.
I'm pretty keen to date someone who blocks Google analytics by default. How does one find such a person? Is there room for a dating site that shadowbans anyone who willfully accepts the current state of surveillance capitalism?
That's quite specific though. It would make more sense for it to just be a simple question on OkCupid
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
But mostly the unattractive people by number. I am not saying your scenario doesn't happen, but compared to the other one it will be statistically insignificant. This also means that the attractive people will find they'll get matched up with nothing but uggos, and then they'll leave.
“uggos” is ... pretty ugly in its own way. There are people whose aesthetic appeal is quite broad. There are people whose aesthetic appeal is narrower. There are relatively few people who are broadly aesthetically repulsive. No one should deny that the former end of things makes a lot of activities easier, including dating... but the funny thing in talking to my acquaintances from the very attractive to narrower-appe…
I challenge you to find a more succinct term that gets the same point across.
Politically correct speech pays a heavy price in expressiveness, especially of the banned ideas. It is kind of the point. What did I save up the points for, if not to spend it to say what I actually want, rather than gesture at it ineffectively?
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#40I applaud the attempt to innovate in the dating world which tends to be solely focused on looks. But sexual attraction is an important part of relationships, so going in blind is inherently risky (from a time utilization perspective). With old school blind dates, your date is friend/family selected so some level of filtering is already done for you. I guess a good portion of dates are disappointing anyway and there a…
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