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Comment by HumanamuH | Hacker News Reader

Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording?

I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.

Asking for:

  - Looking
  - Orientation
  - Gender

And then, 'what do you intend to do with people' or similar wording on the next page.

I realise it's all innocent, it just sets an odd tone.

I'm open for suggestions on how to improve the wording. Quite tricky that languages are so overladen with all sorts of meanings. Especially challenging if it's not one's first language.

The gender requirement. Even if you removed that stuff it's already too much work to maintain my LinkedIn account the couple other social networks I'm on. I'm not sure what you can do to mitigate social network burnout while still achieving your goal.

Actually, there isn't a gender requirement. It's optional.

I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?

At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.

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