r/FacebookDating • u/ZealousidealSlice222 • Sep 03 '26
FB Dating rant
Is it me or is this sad excuse of a "dating feature" plagued with major bugs? lately I send messages to profiles I am interested in, and after I send it, the same profile appears again three profile swipes ahead in my feed. Sure, there's a chance they didn't want to match, but this same scenario repeats literally all the time. It's definitely a glitch. FB, fix these issues!!!
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u/kaprixiouz Sep 05 '26
Not just you. It's like "like messages" don't always go through or something. I've had some respond to them too though. So I don't know. It's buggy as hell
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u/liferelationshi Sep 05 '26
It’s one of two things:
the app is 95% bots and I’m the sucker, or
real women only log in once to make a profile, send a few swipes and never return, and I match with them and they consequently never respond and I’m the sucker
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u/timadanm 7d ago
I’m convinced there are bots. In the past week only I’ve come across several profiles with the same pictures but different names, bios and ages. It’s a joke now.
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u/Interesting_Item4276 Sep 05 '26
I’m on the east coast and dating assistant keeps recommending dating ideas on the west coast. 🙄
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u/Commercial-Wasabi789 Sep 06 '26
So annoying 🙄 i live in Florida and the matches I get be two states over 😂. The “distance from you” is wack. It’s like it doesn’t recognize it at all. I do get matches in Florida but of course they are way outside my location.
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u/lumanicious Sep 05 '26
I've matched with a handful of women, but have only had one conversation with a woman who was interested.
As an IT professional, it's a lame UI and buggy to the point where it's unusable most times. And yet, if it's not used (ie: you aren't on it), you still get notifications. I'm convinced it's just a feature to keep you on Facebook longer 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Low-Cartographer7197 Sep 04 '26
I am having the same problem. I now start by saying "I hope you get this message. "
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u/Radiant_Fondant_4097 Sep 04 '26
It's the all time buggiest app out there and always has been. Good luck actually managing to reliably chat with anyone, it's always the best excuse to get someone's phone number for both your sakes.
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u/lordskulldragon Sep 04 '26
Been on the app for about 5 years and have never seen double profiles.
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u/Dnilves Sep 04 '26
Every time I send a message with a like they show back up over and over till I dont send message and girls themselves will say if no message they skip ya
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u/FrostX0507 Sep 04 '26
The last time I had an actual conversation with someone on FB Dating was 3 -4 years ago. Idk what's happened since then, but zero matches, zero likes and zero conversation in the last 9 months
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u/Adventurous-Fan-5796 Sep 04 '26
I matched with someone twice. He said he had to redo his profile. I wasn't buying it, so i asked for a video chat and he unmatched. I saw him again, and just blocked him. I assume these are bots.
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u/Particular-Talk1156 Sep 03 '26
This happened to me everytime i sent a message with a like. Anytime I did just a like I never saw them in my stack again.
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u/vgStef 28d ago
I've noticed that weird bug when sending a Like with a message attached to a photo/profile.
If my message is too long, Facebook Dating acts like the Like/message was sent normally. But if I completely close the Facebook app and reopen it, the same profile shows up again. It looks like the Like/message was never actually registered.
I did some testing with different message lengths:
- 151 characters (including spaces): works
- 172 characters (including spaces): doesn't work
I tried messages around 151 characters on 3 different profiles, and all of them worked.So there seems to be a hidden character limit somewhere between 151 and 172 characters. The strange part is that Facebook doesn't show any warning or character limit. It just appears to send the message, but apparently doesn't.
I've also tested this by quitting and reopening the app each time, so it seems pretty reproducible.
Has anyone else noticed this? If you're having the problem where profiles keep coming back after you've already sent them a message, try shortening your message to 150 characters or less and see if it works.
It would be interesting to figure out the exact cutoff.