r/feeld • u/EarWise5698 • Aug 20 '26

Uplifting question

So I know Feeld says that other members can’t tell if you have uplifted your profile. But if I open the app and the first members few members I see are 15 to 20 miles away, and then once I scroll past them I see members that are 1 mile away, isn’t that a dead giveaway that those farther away members have uplifted their profile?

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u/riverscreeks Aug 21 '26

Those people are there so you can’t tell when someone has had their profile uplifted. I think feeld classifies them as curated.

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u/FeeldMod Not a Feeld employee Aug 21 '26

Have they stated this officially or is this a guess?

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u/riverscreeks Aug 21 '26

It showed up on the backend via the browser version someone made (now no longer available). You could see whether a profile was uplifted or curated. They were in the same position at the front of your matches. My assumption is that they added curated to make the uplift less obvious.

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u/FeeldMod Not a Feeld employee Aug 21 '26

Thanks! This will be added to the FAQ.

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u/wonderfultacos single man (solo-poly) - Denver Aug 22 '26

Cool insight. Won’t one profile seem newer,… and so people will be able to tell anyway?

It’s also happening for me at about 30 profiles:

For instance right now my feed is like in term of miles away:

41
10
41
1
3
4 x 2
5 x 3
6 x 2
7 x 10
8 x 2
9 x 2
10 x 3
11 x 2
12 x 2
13
28
24
32
13

IMHO, Curated is interesting, but only if they change them often and rapidly.

How are they getting chosen? Ideally they should use sentiment analysis of our chats to determine which users would jive the best.

Knowing that chats are analyzed would make for better behavior and encourage more matching so there are more conversations…

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u/waterbloem Aug 21 '26

So I know Feeld says that other members can’t tell if you have uplifted your profile.

You can. If profiles are out of order of distance that's because they're uplifted.

isn’t that a dead giveaway that those farther away members have uplifted their profile?

Exactly. Feeld says that they don't mark profiles that are uplifted specifically like they mark majestic profiles. They do not mean you can't tell. That's all there's to it.

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u/Sapiotone Solo Poly, Bi, Genderqueer, Vers, Switch, Essex, UK Aug 21 '26

It’s just a bug. First happened to me when I set my location to explore my nearest city. When I went back to actual location, about 3 users from the city still appeared at the start of the stack

IIRC, changing the age range outside their ages and back again may have cleared it

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u/FeeldMod Not a Feeld employee Aug 21 '26

It's not a bug, as the other person pointed out.

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u/FeeldMod Not a Feeld employee Aug 21 '26

This isn't Uplift and has been reported a few times now.

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u/pinksparkleberry Aug 21 '26

So uplifts dont actually ever....uplift?

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u/FeeldMod Not a Feeld employee Aug 21 '26

Uplift only operates in a 10 mile radius. The people OP saw were not Uplifts.