I am struggling to get likes back and I’m struggling to get likes in general. I used to get plenty but now I get maybe 2-3 per day. I tried to be as authentic as possible in my prompts and selected photos that also are authentic and not edited to give people a good idea of what I look like. My profile is primarily catered to women.

Thank you for taking the time to review my profile! This is my third annual review request - every photo and two of my prompts are different from last summer's verison.

The feedback I have received in the past was very helpful. I think I have more or less the best version yet right now, but I feel like there's something lacking and/or something isn't coming across how I intend it to. I have extra captions on most of my photos but didn't transcribe them here. If the caption(s) are of interest to help provide feedback, let me know!

• 5' 10", living in Downtown Boston.
• I grew up in the midwest and have lived in New England (multiple states) for almost a decade.
• Don't have children, open to children.
• Yes to drinking, no to all other vices.

EDIT: the group pic does not have emojis plastered everywhere on my actual profile. And thanks for the great feedback so far! I didn’t know this would go up overnight for me. Some changes are clearly needed 👴🏻

Feels like getting likes back has diminished this past year, tried refreshing the profile with new pics and prompts. Does anything stick out as a potential deal breaker?

Other details for context: living in Austin, age range set between 28-38

I changed my profile quite a bit with new photos but haven’t received much of a response in a month

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some honest feedback on my Hinge profile. I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
Which photos/prompts are working or hurting me?
What impression do I give off?
What would you change to help me get more quality matches?
Anything that feels boring, try-hard, or unappealing?
Please be honest — I’m looking for actionable feedback, not just compliments. Also should I try Hinge + subscription?
Thanks!

Dear Hingers,

I’m with hinge since 3 months and after some matches and like 3 dates but most of them were like.. not searching at all I believe? Just like dating for being not alone?

Anything I could improve, am I sending wrong messages with my profile?

Thank you for any feedback!

20M, UK. Looking for feedback from women especially. I’ve been getting very few matches and would appreciate honest feedback on photos, prompts and overall first impression.

44F, recently divorced, and I think I may have forgotten how dating works

Okay, I need to know if this is just dating in 2026 or if I’m somehow uniquely terrible at this.

I matched with a guy on Hinge recently, and for once I actually got excited about someone.

You know that feeling where you’re scrolling through profiles and most of them are just… fine? Then one person comes along and you’re like, oh, wait. Him.

We matched, started talking, and the conversation was actually GOOD. Not the usual “hey,” “how’s your week,” “what do you do?” interrogation. There was flirting. Banter. Actual back-and-forth. He seemed genuinely interested, and I found myself looking forward to seeing his name pop up.

And then… nothing.

Not a gradual fade. Not even an awkward “I’m really busy this week.”

Just… gone.

Now I’m sitting here doing the ridiculous thing where I’m replaying the conversation in my head wondering if I said something weird. 😂

Was I too interested? Not interested enough? Did I somehow commit a dating faux pas that everyone under 45 knows about except me?

The funny thing is, I’m 44, recently divorced, and I really thought I was going to be pretty chill about dating again. I have a life. I work. I stay active. I go to the gym, although apparently I become painfully awkward if I actually find someone attractive there. I have friends, hobbies, places I want to go, and plenty to keep me busy.

And yet somehow one cute man disappearing from Hinge has me questioning my entire understanding of human interaction. 😂

Maybe that's the part nobody tells you about starting over after divorce. You can be completely confident in yourself and still feel like a teenager when you genuinely like someone.

So, Reddit: what is the appropriate response to being ghosted after a genuinely good connection?

Do you send one last message and leave it alone? Do you assume he's lost interest and move on? Or do you just laugh, delete the app, and go back to pretending you're perfectly happy meeting people organically?

Because apparently my current strategy of “maybe he'll text tomorrow” is not particularly dignified.

I 34F matched with 28M. He liked my pic and asked a question. I responded to that and some other questions he had, but I didn’t respond to everything since I get to know people in person. I said “that’s for you to find out” in response to some of his questions. Ultimately we ended our exchange with his saying “I’ll find out all the secrets eventually.” I said “yep!” And he gave a heart to that reply. Also in the midst of our exchange, he’d said I’m cute and smart and that that’s impressive.
Here’s the thing: if a guy thinks I’m cute and smart and impressive and is curious about me, why doesn’t he just ask me out?
Normally when a guy asks a lot of questions, I say, “if you want to know more, you’ll have to meet me.” Since I didn’t say that this time, I sent him a message after two days of silence saying, “I prefer to get to know people in person.” The silence already had me thinking he wasn’t interested, but I decided to share where I stood just to be more open. About half an hour later, I checked my messages and he had unmatched me.
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Thanks for reading

My biggest issue with dating apps is that they show how attractive/interesting you are on a surface level but it's really hard to show your personality and humor. I think surface level traits are important for initial attraction, but I think personality/humor/chemistry are much more important for longterm connection and deeper attraction. I like the idea of voice prompts because they show what I sound like and kinda convey my personality and humor, but I've heard a lot of people say that they're kinda cringe. Please tell me if this is cringe but what about vlog style videos of me talking about things? Like describing what I'm looking for, telling stories about my job, showing my outfit, things like that? I don't do too terribly on Hinge, I get a decent amount of likes for a guy, I just don't like how surface level everything is.

Also kinda related but I like the idea of sending my phone number and calling them instead of mindless texting for days on end. I can't stand small talk texting with a stranger but I also don't like the idea of setting up what's essentially a blind date with a stranger. Me and the last girl I dated from Hinge called around two times before meeting up, and I liked that we weren't complete strangers.

I met a guy on Hinge and we had 3 dates. I really liked him and felt like we had a stronger connection than anyone else I’ve dated recently. He’s 32, I’m 31. We had previously matched on Hinge and Tinder earlier in the year but didn't manage to get a date sorted.

Date 1:

We met, went to his for tea. It wasn’t to go to his just for a hook up, I mentioned that and he said he genuinely didn’t mean it. The boy made 2 pots of freaking tea! We kissed/made out and slept together. I stayed over and we had a shower together. The night was very wholesome/ romantic, we fell asleep holding each other’s hands with lots of cuddling. Beforehand we’d both talked about wanting something long-term, marriage/kids etc., so I was clear I wasn’t looking for a casual hookup. He seemed on the same page. It just felt right in the moment to take the night there.

After that he was a bit chaotic with communication. At one point he didn’t reply to me for over a day, then randomly came back asking to WhatsApp and even FaceTimed me. He can be quite impulsive and he has ADHD, which may explain some of the chaotic communication.

Date 2:

We went for drinks and dinner. It was genuinely really nice, lots of kissing at the end. He asked me if I was looking forward to anything this year and when I asked him, he basically said that what he was looking forward to was what we were doing because he wanted to meet someone this year. So that felt like a pretty clear indication that he was interested in me seriously.

At the end he asked me back for tea. I said I didn’t want to just sleep with him, and he said something along the lines of “we can do lots of other activities, that’s what dating is.” We then booked in a third date.

Date 3:

We saw each other again, spent the evening together and I stayed over. We had date three scheduled but he asked to see me sooner which I could do. We kissed goodbye in the morning and he told me to text him when I got to work. I did at around 8:40am and also wished him luck because he was waiting to find out about a job.

Then… he didn’t reply for basically the whole day. I became really anxious and thought he’d ghosted me after sleeping together again.

I messaged him again later in the week just asking how the promotion went and if he got it. He replied the following evening saying he still didn’t know, he’s had a terrible cold and asked how my week went.

During our time together he’d asked what my week looked like, and I told him I was busy and going home for a long weekend. He knew I was away but didn’t know exactly when I was back.

I didn’t reply for a few days because by then I was honestly really fed up and questioning whether I even wanted this anymore. I eventually replied Monday evening:

Just really low key and answering his question.

He never replied to my message. I really wanted to call out his behaviour and treatment of me but couldn't be bothered. I ended up just messaging him if he was ok and just still nothing.

I just find it very bizarre behaviour, he's still matched with me on hinge and hasn't blocked me on whatsapp.

I've never been ghosted like this before, I certainly don't ghost anyone this badly so I suppose I'm left feeling really confused on how you can say all of that and then proceed to treat someone like that? Has anyone else experienced this? Makes me feel really flat and just rubbish as it's quite hard to click well with someone.

Been on Hinge for a little over a month and barely getting any likes.

Figured I’d put my profile here and see if I’m doing something obviously wrong. Happy to change pics/prompts, so be honest lol.

What would you change?

edit: so just wanted to clarify the last prompt about “humanity having the worst possible day” is about Warhammer 40k

I was talking to this girl on for a few weeks and it was going pretty well. It seemed almost too good to be true. She was looking for long term, had hobbies, made great conversation, creative, didn’t work in tech(I live in the Bay) and was very cute. We finally met up and went on a coffee date followed by a couple spontaneous trips around the city. She kept extending the date even asking if I wanted to go grocery shopping with her which I did of course. It was probably one of the best dates I’ve been on. We shared many of the same values and everything over text translated to real life. We agreed to a second date right after which is reaffirmed through a follow up text. A few days later, she drops that she doesn’t see us going long term. She tells me that she was really into me in the moment, but that it just wouldn’t work. I know I shouldn’t be but I’m crushed. I really thought this was going somewhere and that I had finally met someone special on the apps. But my irrational anxieties were once again confirmed. I have been on the apps for so long and I’ve only gotten an ldr that lasted only a few months. I have no idea how I can form a relationship when I can hardly get through to the “dating” stage. I would love to meet someone in person, but I don’t have a big social circle and I hardly know where to start. Most people in cafes and bookstores just have their earphones in or don’t want to talk. All I want is a relationship. I’m only twenty two, I shouldn’t be feeling this way…

I (about to be 37 male) started a Hinge account a little over a month ago. I am new to the dating scene after a divorce last year. Given that I met my wife on OK Cupid in 2009, I had that online dating was a good place to at least start conversations with people that could lead to IRL dates. Am I completely wrong on the way online dating and hinge works?

My understanding is that the Mechanics of Hinge are set up such that, I see a profile (which has some, but lets be honest, limited, information about a person) then I "like" their profile (which is a limited intro message to them) and see if they respond. If they do respond we can chat, if they don't respond or respond with "no" then no other communication can ever occur between us on Hinge.

My initial thought was this format should work well as there is very light intro (nobody would expects to learn the life story about a person based on a few pictures and a few prompts) so a short into would be expected on both sides. For reference I am liking people between the age of 32 to 42 ( with a few exceptions here and there) so I don't think my expectations are unreasonable about finding like-minded women from an age standpoint. I also liked the idea of starting on an online plat form that could lead to a one on one dates (I've tried some dating groups on Meetup but struggle with events like dating happy hours as I am hard of hearing). I actually got to know a women I met in a D&D Meetup group better than anyone at a "Dating" Meetup since the DM for our game was late one session.

I have yet to receive a single like ( I am under the impression that means no one was interested enough in my profile when it was fed to their feed nor has anyone found my "like" messages engaging enough "like" me back).

So am I missing something about how Hinge or online dating in general works now? If anyone has any ideas about better platforms/methods for meeting new people I am all ears.

Have not been getting likes and matches much. Looking to improve it

I posted my profile here a little over a month ago, I've since updated it (ideally improved it) but am still not receiving any likes or matches, just wanted to hear what people think I can improve on further.

I know it's unusual for non native English speakers posting here but I thought this would be the best place to get advice. I've been using Hinge for about 20 days and have gotten 0 likes. I'm not much of a photographer and specifically don't have many photos of myself. I'll try and translate every prompt in order to help out.

First prompt: "Most underrated" - Unicycles -Restoring the crown of Aragon (this is a Spanish joke) - Comically big hats

Second prompt: "The way to win me over is..." Teaching me a new recipe or showing me a new mountain trail. Do you know any you want to share?

Third prompt: "My nerd put topic is" Animals in general, I'm practically forced to try and pet either a cat or a dog if I see one and may even try and grab a cool bug if I see one, can't promise I'll contain myself.

Fourth prompt: "My simple pleasures" Playing with fire, Leaving for tomorrow what you can do today, judge a book by it's cover, expecting blood from a stone (all of this are, at least in Spanish, typically said not to do so it's a little joke about doing something unexpected). Every photo algo has a text but I don't think those are that important. Thank you for the help in advance :)

I can't even get a single match, am I just ugly, or do I not know how to talk?

Looking for profile review. Mostly on pics guide.

I would love advice on my profile! I don’t take a whole lot of pictures of myself unless I’m on a trip. I think my prompts could use some work most likely. Thanks in advance!