A few issues. * Bought by Match * They either genuinely are trying to destroy it to drive people to Tinder, or seriously don't understand it * Culture has changed since 2011 (will return to this) * Malincentives in dating (which a crypto startup hoped to help fix)
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Culture change: in 2011, being a moderately hot dude, I hooked up with a few moderately hot chicks on OKC in a few days. Let's say generic introvert nerd girls, horny. Nearly impossible these days. The site no longer encourages those types of users to use it.
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Malincentives are - the better they are at their job, the less money they get from you. In theory. It seems like they've lost a ton of market share, though.
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i totally get how the malincentives work, but it’s still possible to structure a dating app such that you make money from successful matches. and given how much value there would be in actually finding people good matches, why haven’t VCs already funded this?
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is it legitimately not possible to make money off of helping people find quality long-term relationships? i don’t believe that
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This is what
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yeah, i’ve heard of them. i don’t know what happened to them. did they run out of money? regardless, it isn’t an unsolvable problem, so why the hell haven’t more people tried to solve it until it was solved?
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Making product decisions regarding sexuality stuff that is not Infinitely Progressive may be, uh, toxic right now.
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Last I heard JDate and Christian Mingle and even Farmers Only were doing just fine matching the non-woke crowd. I guess the dating app for secular people who write better than they look shirtless is Twitter.
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You can ask Aella about Luna Dating, she worked there. Or you can buy me a beer and I'll tell you some stories from the end of Luna (which included a literal "loot Luna" party) that I'm not going to put in writing :) cc
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When next we meet let us compare rumor to knowledge 
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A few months before it folded I went to a Luna party and asked what they did with all the money they raised in the ICO in Korea. They said th
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