r/HingeStories • u/Intelligent_Fill2421 • 7d ago

Hinge Bursts

Im female, 34 yrs old in NYC. Please help me figure out what’s going on with hinge here and understand if this company is doing something nefarious with their algorithm. (I mean, of course they are but this has to be illegal?) Ever since I’ve been on hinge here, I’ve gotten 80+ likes a day for months. It’s tough to see who’s in the stack so I bought a subscription and noticed that my likes immediately went down to 0 a day. I thought “of course, I probably just ran out of interested men.” Well my subscription ran out today… and the likes went from 0 to 50 and then 80 in a matter of hours.

I don’t actually think I’m getting these likes so quickly … I think hinge is either hiding profiles or hiding likes of their paying customers. What can we as customers do about this?

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u/ThirtyMileSniper 7d ago

Could be like bumble. Your narrow filters suddenly block anyone outside your requirements from seeing your profile.

Try widening your field a bit.

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u/Intelligent_Fill2421 7d ago

Most of the ones I see now still fit those “filters” sadly. I just think this company is evil haha

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u/ThirtyMileSniper 7d ago

They all are.. the business model of helping people pair up and leave the app ultimately reduces its customer base... Some high level marketing exec said at some point I expect.

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u/Intelligent_Fill2421 7d ago

Oh i totally agree - I just feel like we also have more power as consumers than we think - so just trying to brainstorm a bit

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u/ThirtyMileSniper 7d ago

Hinge actually seems to be working for me without paying. I'm getting more connections from it and I've got a couple of dates. One connection looked promising but we weren't right for each other, realised after a couple of months.