Waste of time

Literally, the biggest waste of time. I have been waiting for months to join, only to join and be completely disappointed. The app does not stand out from it’s competition, and genuinely fails to even keep up.

Some details:

1 The UI needs some work. The icons are weird (your binocular “matches” icon looks like handcuffs), the color scheme tries to be modern and edgy but it’s sort of bland, and the worst is the message/chat set up. The message bubbles are extremely narrow and squished, and do not efficiently use the space on the screen in portrait mode.

Tinder and Coffee Meets Bagel win here.

2 The errors. The errors I keep seeing shouldn’t be happening. Even for a product in Beta. Test messages being sent out, matches disappearing while I’m looking at them, matches not letting like / dislike them.. I mean the app only has a handful of purposes. It should do them as expected, after this long being on the market. The worst of the errors has to be the lack of preferences being followed. I put 10 miles from my location, and I get matches from 25-30 miles away. There are only basic (like 3) preferences to set, so when one isn’t being followed then that’s a big deal.

OKC is way better at filters. Even CMB and Tinder.

3 The app algorithms are basic and not working. I’m not finding any good matches. Not to say that the women I match with aren’t great, they’re just not great for me. But then again, I can only see a few things about them so maybe I’m missing something?

CMB wins here.

4 Speaking of basic profiles, one of my biggest gripes is that this app doesn’t let you tailor your profile to you. You have essentially your LinkedIn info (well a portion of it), and a less-than-a-tweet-headline. This does nothing to help me shine. Dating apps, and well, dating in general is a game of numbers for guys. Match with as many as you can, to get a small percentage to message you, to get a smaller percentage of dates, all in hopes to find the one special person. Oh that’s right, my point. My point is that my only real “success” has come from apps where I can put my personality out there from the get go. I say this comparing apps where I can’t really customize it (bumble, this app), vs apps where I can write what I want to write, and I get 10x as many responses where each say “i love your intro” or something along those lines.

Tinder / OKC / POF - those win here

5 Lastly - This concierge idea is not working. When you join you get “assigned a personal concierge”. This blonde woman. I’m not sure what they hoped to get out of this, but it’s annoying. And that is the nicest I can put it. I get bombarded with this frequent messages addressed to me, but they’re walls of text and hard to read. Not just because of the narrow chat bubbles I mentioned earlier, but because they’re littered with Emojis and written like my little cousins who just graduated high school - sure it can be a little entertaining, but I just don’t get it. I’m not going to take the time to read all of that, and not only that, she says “let me know when there are issues”. I tried raising some of these issues here in some messages to her, but no response.

My goal here is not to be mean or insulting, it’s to share some genuine gripes. So much anticipation was built up, and I feel like I was jipd. I work on UI projects for the biggest tech company in the world, and admittedly I am an avid user of dating apps (still looking for that special someone!). So my gripes here are based on my experience with both. All in all, this app has a GREAT marketing team that’s clearly doing it’s job. But that’s about it. The product and service are not there to make good on the promises made.

To the League team members, hopefully you find some valid points in my rant and fix some things. Good luck.

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