Nice! But is there an app with this algorithm/strategy/design for finding good matches for casually having fun together? All the apps I know suck.

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PorciiVorbesc 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> finding good matches for casually having fun together?

Basically all dating apps are optimized for enabling casual hookups at this point.

>All the apps I know suck.

Do ALL the apps suck, or are you maybe not appealing enough for being picked for casual hookups by the users on the app?

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rrr_oh_man 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Do ALL the apps suck, or are you maybe not appealing enough for being picked for casual hookups by the users on the app?

Dunno, @beeforpork sounds hawt

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nextaccountic 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The app has an incentive to suck unless you pay

	▲	whatshisface 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Go recheck your calculations, you'll notice something about their incentive in the case where you pay.
	▲	missedthecue an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, it doesn't. Because the value of a dating app is in its size. The bigger you are and the more options you can provide users, the better the experience is for everyone - paying and nonpaying customer alike. Given that most users of any dating app will be non-paid, making them miserable causes the largest portion of your users to leave, making the app a little worse and less competitive for everyone. Those paying and those not paying. Further, customer psychology doesn't tend to reward paying to improve a bad experience. Users are more like to pay to upgrade an already good experience. There is a very common idea that there is some conspiracy on dating apps to prevent coupling up as some strategy to reduce subscription churn, but it really just isn't true. The market is plenty large enough. Millions of relationships end every day. Millions of people turn 18 every day and enter the (online) dating world. The cold hard truth is that almost every complaint about the online dating experience is a complaint about human behavior, not about something remediable with better product design. Source: I used to build and run dating apps.

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pamcake an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Think more platonic hanging out. Hiking, game night, grabbing a drink.

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derektank 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would you need a pairwise matching algorithm for finding friends? Friends are generally not exclusive nor rivalrous

	▲	waldrews 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's about prioritizing candidates for the costly initial audition, and breaking symmetry for the introduction, something particularly useful for people who can't just approach other at random in a social setting.

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notpushkin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This could work for that purpose in a pinch. You do actually get other matches afterwards, you just don’t get an infinite feed of other candidates and can focus on having great time with the one you’ve got.

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Joakal 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

meetup and other related apps have always been best for finding people with related interests.

If they don't have your interests, feel free to start a new group?

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TFNA 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Meetup got enshittified years ago already, and the changes drove away the small communities that once made up so much of the site; the only groups which prosper on it now are mainly large for-profit ventures.

In places where there is a healthy ecosystem of casual, non-rapacious meetups, that is overwhelmingly organized via Facebook, not Meetup.

	▲	exhilaration 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thank you, I just learned a new word. Rapacious ADJECTIVE 1 given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed. 2 inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate. a rapacious disposition. grasping, voracious, Synonyms: ravenous Antonyms: generous 3 (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
	▲	rrr_oh_man 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		FYI, Meetup got acquired by Bending Spoons and it seems it's being de-enshittified.
	▲	bluebarbet 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>Meetup got enshittified years ago already Citation needed. Not my experience at all. And it has the major benefit of being independent of the tech giants, who already know too much about your social graph.