Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI
Photo: Jerod Harris (Getty Images) Bumble Founder and Executive Chair Whitney Wolfe Herd defended her dating app’s new AI feature on stage in San Francisco on Thursday. She went on…
This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
“I’d never really done the online dating thing,” Los Mayers said. Mayers, an app developer living in Brooklyn, had met all of his previous partners in person the old-fashioned way.…
Tinder’s $500 a Month Membership Tier Has Me Embracing Loneliness
Image: Boumen Japet (Shutterstock) Tinder isn’t the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous $500-a-month tier, Tinder Select, led to considerable…
College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down
Young people are breaking up with dating apps, according to a new poll from Axios, showing that 79% of college students don’t use any dating apps. A decline in interest…
Tinder Thinks Some of You Are Horny Enough to Pay $500 Every Month
Having trouble finding the love of your life on Tinder? Don’t dig deep and work on yourself, just fork over $500 every month to the platform to find your soul…
Growing Up Gay in the Age of Apps
From the time I knew what intersections were, I said my family lived at the crossing of Inwood Road and Preston Road in North Dallas. I asserted that fact certainly…
‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge’s Algorithm Decides Who You Date
Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. “The algorithm is screwing me over,” he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan’s East…