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Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.

Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.

  • uzay@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Chasing endless growth in a dating app is missing the point of a dating app

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Huh, so people DO get tired with apps nickel and diming every interaction

    Want to filter by more than 2 things? Pay up. Want to send a message? Pay up. Want some privacy measures? Pay up. Also the features are scattered across multiple paid plans, with separate per-item costs for roses/likes/super-likes etc.

    This isn’t limited to Bumble either

    • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The title and subtitle are misleading. Their profits went up over the last year, just not as much as a bunch of fucking investors wanted them to. The title makes it sound like they’re actually struggling when they’re not

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The near-term product roadmap will focus on AI and enhanced safety measures, Jones said, as well as features designed to appeal to younger audiences.

    will focus on AI

    Oh boy

    • Rumbelows@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I know, I snorted at that. Oh, shit we’re losing money because we pursued endless growth instead of the UX for customers….quick, uhhh….AI!

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Why did Bumble have 350 employees in the first place? What does the app even do? I’m old enough to remember Craigslist personals. That was basically a handful of perl scripts and it worked very well, except it needed a bit more moderation to keep out the sex workers, and they ended up shutting it down. I guess Tinder has that swipe left swipe right thing, but no idea how much staff is behind it.

    • kttnpunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Nah RIP Craigslist personals, it was one of the only safeish places to advertise sex work -imo these services should be state-or-community-funded, free AND respecting of privacy, ideally. Maybe it did need more moderation; but even more so it needed less outrage about the useful connections and exchanges of services it enabled. We should always mourn the old web, sure it was flawed like anything else 20 years ago but it was still faaaaaaar better than the google-ravaged wasteland of today.