I worked at OkCupid from 2013-2017 and totally resonate with the author that mid-2010s OkCupid was a really special product, and that it took a steep decline as the decade went on. (...)
OkCupid had excellent growth in the first half of the 2010s, but as that growth started to plateau, it was pretty clear that the focus moved to following Tinder's trends in an effort to match their level of growth. But OkCupid was a really healthy company with great profits and low burn, being only a team of 30-40 people. It could have stayed the way it was and continued to turn a profit. But Tinder had shown that the market size for mobile was way bigger than the desktop-focused product that OkCupid used to be. The focus towards acquiring more mobile users meant stripping down and simplifying a product that previously demanded hundreds of words of essay writing, and answering hundreds of questions. The essay prompts became simpler, multiple choice asymmetric questions got deprioritized over reciprocal yes / no questions. And as a user, I felt the quality of conversations I had went down as most messages were sent on the go from people just trying to line up their weekend plans, instead of a deeply invested audience trying to form meaningful connections first.
Zerosquare (./39811) :Oui c'est sûrement vrai pour OKCupid ; après ça reste une occurrence donc je ne sais pas à quel point c'est généralisable. C'est une théorie intéressante, mais je n'ai pas trouvé dans l'article ce qui permettait pour l'instant de l'élever à autre chose qu'une théorie.
plusieurs personnes différentes disent avoir travaillé chez OKCupid à l'époque, et confirment que c'est ce qu'il s'est passé
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Godzil (./39838) :Y a des pizza américaines qui peuvent aussi être bonnes ^^
Et une a un gout de pizza l’autre a un goût de carton