Any tinder experts here?

[an0nym0us123]

Been on tinder a year, same account, remote location so not swiping on huge numbers every day. I NEVER reach the 100 swipe limit. More like 50 a day.

 

I'm an average looking guy, but was able to average 2 or 3 matches a day. Numerous times women initiated and have been on quite a lot of dates. I did this basically with a couple of selfies and one photo taken by someone else.

 

Recently decided to make an effort and try and take so decent pictures. So after a lot of time playing about with cameras and timers etc i had a few pictures I really liked. Was actually quite pleased how I looked compared to selfies which distort the face.

 

So I put 3 new photos up and left 2 of the old ones.

 

Then I decided to get tinder gold for a month just for curiosity.

 

You can swipe in any location so since I'm in the middle of nowhere I tried a city 200 miles away. Also used a free "boost" and I got 12 likes in 30 mins. 3 or 4 I matched with.

 

I also tried in in other location around my country. Although I didn't swipe much I saw the likes. Talked to a couple of matches who said my pictures were good.

 

Used the remaining boosts in my own location and got a few likes and a couple of matches.

 

However now I'm getting nothing. One match in 3 days and one other like! It's like the best photos of me I've got!

 

I then uploaded the 3 new ones to a photo rating site. 2 of them scored 8/10 for attractiveness and the other only 5 so I took it down. Still nothing!

 

I understand tinder uses an algorithm though match people but I cannot believe that my pictures have done this!

 

I would reset my account but I read you can be penalised for this. Does anyone know what's going on? Is it because I was swiping in a lot of other locations? Thanks in advance

[mr_ybor]

Just to the polar opposite of whatever it is I'm doing.

[normal person]

 

I would reset my account but I read you can be penalised for this. Does anyone know what's going on? Is it because I was swiping in a lot of other locations? Thanks in advance

 

You said you live in a remote location. That's the issue. You can't match with people if there are no people to match with. Move to a major metropolitan area with a few million people and you'll have more matches than you know what to do with. Otherwise, don't hold your breath.

[Mrin]

You said you live in a remote location. That's the issue. You can't match with people if there are no people to match with. Move to a major metropolitan area with a few million people and you'll have more matches than you know what to do with. Otherwise, don't hold your breath.

 

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[Michelle ma Belle]

Seems like an enormous amount of effort to get a date. I wonder what else that time, energy and money can be better spent on...?

[Twizzlestick]

Seems like an enormous amount of effort to get a date. I wonder what else that time, energy and money can be better spent on...?

 

 

Mm. Not really if he met his future partner. It would be a small price. It’s easy to dismiss offhand, but with some insight I sympathise, I (albeit temporarily) live in the middle of nowhere in the farming land of the U.K, and meeting people is very very hard, let alone the gender you're looking for, who you also find attractive and also are single. Then your odds really drop. Luckily I travel for work and meet plenty that way. But dating apps have introduced people I’d not have met.

 

OP.. I’m no expert at all, I understand that tinder uses algorithms that buoy you up when you first join to the top of the pile but after a while you sink back down. It’s a common flaw aimed at tinder. Being Male heavy, averagely good looking Male profiles sink into the medley of faces and never get to the top and seen. Boost does raise you up to the top of the stack, but then of course the distance is an issue for a lot of swipers. But you say you had matches before. Try the original photos? I’m always experimenting.

 

I also understand the tinder scoring system rewards things like how you swipe. So people who swipe very quickly and swipe right on every profile lower their score. Equally if you always swipe left bar the odd occasion this can lower your score. So seems recommended is taking the time to read a few profiles every few swipes and swipe maybe 1 in 10 (that can be hard if you have twenty sea monsters staring at you). Also if you get a match, send a message. That helps the score. As does being matched by popular profiles. The score determines where you appear on the stack, or so I understand. I just googled this as tinder was a mystery when I started as I had lots of likes, then weeks of non, but now it’s ballooned a bit and people I find attractive are liking and matching.

 

 

In the U.K. tinder is used for dating too, but understand in the US it’s hookup heavy? I flew with a crewmate the other week who met his wife on tinder ha

Edited July 25, 2019 by Twizzlestick

[an0nym0us123]

Thanks for the replies. Seems using tinder gold to move about and swipe in other locations somehow lowered the matches i get in my own location. Either that its the boosts.

 

Things seemed to have returned to normal. Even though i still get the odd match from hundreds of miles away.

 

I do live in the middle of no where which does make things a lot harder

[mr_ybor]

All I know about Tinder is I'm so immensely ugly that I don't get any matches .

[Erik30]

Thanks for the replies. Seems using tinder gold to move about and swipe in other locations somehow lowered the matches i get in my own location. Either that its the boosts.

 

Things seemed to have returned to normal. Even though i still get the odd match from hundreds of miles away.

 

I do live in the middle of no where which does make things a lot harder

 

I think once you buy something from Tinder, a boost or Gold, it hurts your profile. Like Tinder knows they've found someone willing to pay, so they make it harder for you to get a match. (So you buy some more..)

 

And also, men are outnumbering women now more than ever on Tinder, a lot of girls might not even see your profile (unless you pay for a boost)

[shydad]

Been on tinder a year, same account, remote location so not swiping on huge numbers every day. I NEVER reach the 100 swipe limit. More like 50 a day.

For a remote location, 50 a day seems like a lot. To put this in perspective, that would be 18,250 per year.

[Mrin]

For a remote location, 50 a day seems like a lot. To put this in perspective, that would be 18,250 per year.

 

Right? I live in a remote location and when I used Tinder with a pretty good radius it was like maybe 10 a day unless it was the tourist season

[an0nym0us123]

I'm seeing about 50 new faces a day right now but more than half would be tourists by the looks of it. Range set to 80 miles currently. Bear in mind some at that distance are over 3 hours away by road.