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User details a significant decline in dating app effectiveness, spending excessive hours for minimal results, including ghosting and cancellations. This highlights a need for features that enhance the quality of matches, encourage actual meetups, and reduce wasted user effort and disappointment.
I've been on dating apps since almost their inception. I had some pretty good results in the beginning, when the apps were fairly new, but very quickly my results tanked until eventually, it was taking me an average of one month to get a date, and that's spending an average of an hour a day between 4 or 5 apps. So 30ish hours for one date. One date that would stand me up, cancel on me, or just say "sorry, I'm actually not interested in meeting you" more often than not. I deleted and made new accounts many times, constantly swapped out photos, changed bios, changed locations etc. Nothing helped. It felt like looking for a job prior to the 2008 collapse vs after. When the apps were new, it was like pre 2008, just throw a resume in any direction and someone's gonna call you and offer you a job. After 2008...you're sending out resumes after resume for days, weeks and months without a single reply. I honestly don't know how guys get any matches, let alone replies, let alone dates, let alone dates that actually show up on dating apps these days.