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My last experience with Tinder over 3 years ago was that it's a carefully controlled dopamine drip. You get a lot of matches at first on the free tier then it slowly decreases until it convinces you to pay then you get a lot of matches again to justify the price and then it decreases again to keep you hooked.

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Tinder is crap, but others are better. I've had quite a few high-quality dates from Hinge recently.

Can confirm. Hinge is great.

That's interesting because they're both owned by Match Group.

It makes sense for Match Group to specialise their offerings based on the types of people they think might want to date - e.g. quick flings vs more serious relationships.

Hinge has been my best one too. I hate the $20 price tag per month though. Basically extortion.

Tinder is a joke now tbh.

Bumble is like tinder but saves the guys time.

OkCupid is bloated and nobodies on it.

Okcupid used to be the only good option, but it got increasingly worse since match.com bought it. They recently did another overhaul and now it's so bad that it feels like they're deliberately trying to kill their userbase. Which might actually be true - it's probably better for match.com from a business perspective to kill off some of their less popular offerings and force the users to migrate to Tinder. The network effects and hence the potential monopoly are nothing to scoff at.

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