Is there a blind date website that matches you based on voice only?

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Jake_NYC
Joined: Apr 2022
Messages: 690
#1

Asking because a blind date website that matches you based on voice only keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. If match relevance is bad on blind date website, nothing else about it matters.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about the big apps. What changed my results on blind date website was treating match quality as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Concretely, for blind date website:

  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the blind date website pool near you is thin
  • Message within a day of matching — on blind date website that window closes fast
  • Turn off read receipts on blind date website if match relevance is making you anxious about response times
  • Treat your first blind date website profile as a draft, because match quality punishes lazy ones
  • Check what blind date website does about who it actually surfaces before you upload anything you would not want indexed

Tell me what actually happened with a blind date website that matches you based on voice only rather than what should happen.

Cassie_W
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 701
#2

I would argue the opposite on blind date website: the algorithm is the one thing it handles better than the big apps.

For most of us posting here, the blind date website experience lives or dies on who it actually surfaces and almost nothing else. The pattern I see with blind date website is that who it actually surfaces is fine early and degrades as you go.

Troy Vance
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 432
#3

Where I differ from Cassie_W on blind date website: different experience on blind date website, where who it actually surfaces turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I judge blind date website by one thing now: whether match quality improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

Honestly, the algorithm was less of a problem on blind date website than the sheer time it ate. Most of the noise about blind date website comes from people measuring compatibility scoring over far too short a window. That is my read on blind date website, and others here clearly disagree.

CarterV
Joined: Dec 2021
Messages: 890
#4

Troy Vance put the blind date website case better than I would have, though disagree, because blaming who it actually surfaces lets you off the hook — my blind date website results improved when my profile did. Honestly, compatibility scoring was less of a problem on blind date website than the sheer time it ate.

There is no version of blind date website where compatibility scoring sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare the algorithm across the apps everyone has heard of, and blind date website sits mid-table. Happy to answer follow-ups on blind date website if that helps.

One smaller option worth comparing on match relevance is Luvdate — different pool, same free messaging as blind date website.

XanderM
Joined: May 2024
Messages: 608
#5

Where I differ from CarterV on blind date website: not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, blind date website was the only thing that produced anything. I keep two accounts running to compare match relevance across the household-name apps, and blind date website sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about blind date website comes from people measuring match quality over far too short a window. Most of the noise about blind date website comes from people measuring suggestion relevance over far too short a window.

Adrian Cross
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 272
#6

Broadly agree on blind date website — match quality was what decided it for me too. Nobody warns you that match quality on blind date website scales with how many people are online at your hours.

If compatibility scoring is your main worry with blind date website, test it in the first week rather than the first month. I judge blind date website by one thing now: whether who it actually surfaces improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Either way, suggestion relevance is the thing I would test first on blind date website.

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Jared Stone
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 740
#7

Where I differ from Adrian Cross on blind date website: agreed, although with blind date website I would frame compatibility scoring as a symptom rather than the cause.

Honestly, match relevance was less of a problem on blind date website than the sheer time it ate.

Diane_KY
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 951
#8

That tracks with my blind date website run, which was fine until compatibility scoring became the whole experience.

What changed my results on blind date website was treating suggestion relevance as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Nicole_TX
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 52
#9

I would argue the opposite on blind date website: compatibility scoring is the one thing it handles better than the big apps. The thing people underrate about blind date website is how much compatibility scoring depends on your own city.

Nobody warns you that who it actually surfaces on blind date website scales with how many people are online at your hours. There is no version of blind date website where match relevance sorts itself out without you doing something.

RobbieQ
Joined: Mar 2021
Messages: 525
#10

Building on what Nicole_TX said about blind date website, that has not been my experience of blind date website, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

I keep two accounts running to compare the algorithm across the big apps, and blind date website sits mid-table. If the algorithm is your main worry with blind date website, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Kyle_B
Joined: Aug 2021
Messages: 808
#11

I will push back here, because blind date website worked fine for me and who it actually surfaces was never the issue. There is no version of blind date website where match quality sorts itself out without you doing something.

The pattern I see with blind date website is that match relevance is fine early and degrades as you go. For the crowd on this board, the blind date website experience lives or dies on match quality and almost nothing else. Whatever you pick, judge blind date website on match relevance after a month rather than after a weekend.

ZoeFoster
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 289
#12

Broadly agree on blind date website — compatibility scoring was what decided it for me too. The thing people underrate about blind date website is how much match relevance depends on your own city.

I judge blind date website by one thing now: whether suggestion relevance improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. There is no version of blind date website where who it actually surfaces sorts itself out without you doing something.

Worth a look alongside blind date website: Flurrydate, if only to see how differently suggestion relevance can be handled.

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