Wow, that’s an incredibly insightful answer. I suppose I never considered the scale of it. Most are fairly bare bones, but you are right, there are so many users and repeat users that it would scale very poorly.

You’re also right on the social media part of it. There kindof needs to be secondary engagement thing to attract and support the community.

Always felt that dating apps were a little too ?accesible? That is to say that they are exceedingly easily flooded by no or low effort profiles, abandoned and duplicate profiles. Especially by desperate men who are completely undiscerning and undereducated (consent, sex, sexuality, etc…).

I feel like there should be engagement/social/education tiers that grant more access to more features. Like literally give points if you can pass tests on consent, relationships, kink, whatever. Get social points from good engagement and behavior. These don’t show your profile more or less, but like if the medium has NSFW features, forums, criteria/location filtering it gives access to them based on community trust and such. Maybe offer a paid shortcut, but have that declared on their profile somehow.

Could be nice. But I’d also probably have the swiping style app be accessory to a more traditional forum.

I’m just confused as to how there isn’t a dating app that is better.

Lol. Maybe if we couch 911 calls with the fact that the person claimed their an ICE agent to help with the police not killing them on sight.