They were always super low effort anyway, just “hi”. The same thing they would ignore a man for sending on any other platform, which still put the ball in the guy’s court to come up with a conversation starter.

I still don’t understand why they’d stop this. That was the differentiation Bumble had. Considering the Match Group owns pretty much all the dating apps out there, they need to come up with gimmicks for each one.

I haven't used dating apps in a few years but I stayed away from tinder and preferred Hinge and Bumble because I was looking for LTRs only. The most interesting and compatible people i've met (and in my friend groups, the longest relationships I've seen) have been from Hinge but I liked the idea of Bumble as it meant I could reach out to matches with my own timing and try to craft something interesting to say - there was no pressure to reply to simply whoever had messaged me first. I also think it's a bit of a filter for my own preferences which is for men who prefer a more progressive woman and/or don't fall into traditional gender roles, so in theory Bumble should've been perfect for me.

Bumble as a whole went downhill before this - I'm not sure why. I think (at least with hetero matching), men swiped right on everyone to try to turn it into a numbers game (since they otherwise couldn't reach out to anyone themselves) then women would get overwhelmed with the number of matches and the ticking time-window and then would send out generic 1-liners just to get the conversation started and remove countdown timer. I think the time-window was too short - you could swipe on ~10 people, decide that was enough and put the phone down for a few hours, and then later get flooded with notifications when those people in turn swiped on you and then that was when the count-down window started regardless of if you had the time to open up the app and start a conversation with 10 people. I usually gave up because I'd run out of time to message people and the matches would expire. I think extending the window is a good move but making it so anyone can message first basically takes away the point of bumble and what made it different from Tinder. This feels like a deathblow to Bumble.

Here's what The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has to say about dating applications:

It is safe to assume that people who are on dating application platforms are mostly insufferable or insincere, and should therefore not be considered good candidates for romantic partnership.

Firstly, the majority of sentient beings can already be described as insufferable or insincere, or indeed both.

This may even adequately describe every sentient being, but sentient beings tend to be rather pedantically divided on the subject, or think you're joking when you ask them.

As long as it is not a defining characteristic of a sentient being, but rather just a high probability, then a sentient being's presence on a dating app offers an additional hint.

You can infer from their presence on a dating platform that they are already struggling to find a partner (either because they are difficult to tolerate, or will not be very likely to tolerate others), and that they are concerned enough about it to advertise themselves.

It is thus not recommended to seek a partner in this manner. You could instead consider the many brothels and professional friends available in the galaxy (such as on Eroticon VI), though due to a lack of viable currencies in circulation, this is also unlikely to yield positive results.

Surprised it took them this long. I gave up on that years ago.

If you've ever seen a woman's profile on one of these apps, you'll know why. The number notification just maxes out. It's near impossible to do anything with anyone at that point

"Hi" isn't a "move"

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