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Among my friends and I there is NO ONE who is having a better dating life during the pandemic

so not sure what the heck this article is about

Where do people on Hacker News meet their future significant other or people they date?

Bars - gone

Cafes/Coffee Shops - mostly gone

Museums/Art Galleries - mostly closed

House Parties - gone

Friends of Friends - almost gone

Random Luck - almost completely gone

Online dating - really sucks

I guess pandemic must be really good for people who specialize in online dating. For everyone else it sucks

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Or if you're in the top 5-10% of most attractive men, or top 50% of most attractive women.

App based dating in a nut shell - seriously recommend users ask your friends of both genders what tinder looks like for them and your jaw will drop. I (25M) was shocked at all the shirtless guys taking pictures in front of muscle cars. She was shocked at how rare matches were and how many first messages were ignored.

Tinder is just a toy. Though I actually met I’ve person IRL (angriest woman I have ever bought dinner for), and one other person who was visiting in MA and said we should meet when she comes down to NY. But as I texted trying to set up the day, I got the idea she was really fishing for a sugar daddy to put her up in a place in NYC—Brooklyn, and then the Bronx, and then she went to ‘LA’. Haha. After that, I resigned myself to just treating it like a tomaguchi where I pretend I’m looking for a date. And for the record all my clothes were on and no cars were present.

Yeah even in online dating, it just turns to "let's meet up after this is over lol" and then you completely forget each other a couple days later.

Yeah dating is unequivocally worse since the lockdown.

Where I live, some of these places are still open, but restricted numbers and may-or-may-not take bookings (and are usually full anyway), that's even assuming the other person feels comfortable travelling somewhere.

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