I've been messing around on Tinder for the past week or so.

All I seem to get are 30+ washed up ex-carousel riders looking for Beta Bucks.

After reading Rollo Tomassi's blog and his books, I seem to take it as a personal affront when 30+ year old chicks try to get me to jump through their hoops just to get their leftovers after getting gangbanged or trains run on them in their 20s. I used to think that I could dangle the Beta Bucks carrot to get them to come to me, but the problem with that is that they make you wait a few to several dates before putting out. Now I refuse to play that game. /Rant

^what's your tinder photo situation like?

Pics of you out doing things with friends? doing hobbies? well dressed?

Your image has to be on point

(05-20-2015 11:54 AM)Prof. Ligate Wrote:  ^what's your tinder photo situation like?

Pics of you out doing things with friends? doing hobbies? well dressed?

Your image has to be on point

My photos are pretty good. Some professional solo shots. One shirtless and sun-kissed. One suited up "god" shot. One with me in a group of friends. I lowered the upper limit of age that I'm searching for to 28 to weed out the Beta Buck hunters, we'll see how that goes.

(05-18-2015 12:33 AM)N°6 Wrote:  I think I will have to open a new FB account and get 50+ new friends.

When I tested 29 as my age, I got lots of matches from women in their 20s. Now back at 35 and even though I still match with women in their 20s, women over 30 would have to pay a shocking £14.99 per month to match my swiping.

There's two reasons why it's not good to have a profile aged over 30 on Tinder.

Do you really think having fb friends makes any difference?

I have 2 tinder accounts now, and the fb accounts have either zero or 2-3 friends.

(05-20-2015 11:28 AM)Prof. Ligate Wrote:  I think tinder hasn't got a very long shelf life left since the upgrade so utilise it while you can gents

There is an obvious reason for its short span of usefulness, which applies mainly to 'static' users(obviously tinder favours people who travel).

Assuming the majority of people's swipes are X(or declining), then every user has a decreasing pool of potential matches/users to swipe. If you're static, and in a small city, your choices drop rapidly within a few weeks.

The FB friends thing mattered BEFORE Tinder switched over to phone verify.
Previously that was their bot prevention method. It's no longer relevant.

I hopped back on Tinder for the first time in a year and half or so.

WOOF. Quality has taken a plummet.

Yes it is now full of POF-esque women femanding 'relationships' now that they've kissed their full of frogs.

Code of course for a woman of a certain age who needs to quickly sell her heavy stocks on the...

I went to Puerto Rico. My Tinder was blowing up with matches immediately.

So, I'm out of the US two times in the last two months - both of the times Tinder overwhelms me with options. I'm in the US and it's much more tame.

This could be due to dating realities, or it could be due to Tinder's algorithm. Maybe when someone first arrives in a new area, they show the girls that swipe a lot so that the user gets hooked on the app.

Damn, it would be so interesting to look at Tinder's data, they're probably sitting on a ton of observations about the online dating market around the world.

Has anyone noticed how the amount of Tinder matches decreases with the time you spend in a city? I faked my location a few times to various cities in SEA and in the first few days almost every girl I swiped right was a match. After a week or so I barely got new matches. I wonder what the reason for that is.

@GreenHills: My theory is that if you arrive in a new area, you will show up earlier at most girls Tinder. Sometimes I get a new match just minutes after being in a new city.

I believe that the Tinder CEO said traveling increases the rate at which they show you to others.

It makes sense that they would do this because the novelty of seeing foreigners keeps things interesting for stationary tinder users.

I'm noticing tinder experimenting with my account....some girls are showing up with fake friends in commen

On my iphone with ios7 there is no where to edit my profile or have a headline or whatever... I got to let these hoes know I'm Murican. I'm downloading ios8 now and hopefully that will solve my dilemma.

It got wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy harder. Like the quality has plummeted and the girls are super tough. Like, getting a conversation going that leads to a number is rough. I think I'm finally done with tinder.

We hardly knew ye.

(03-19-2015 12:13 PM)Vincent Chase Wrote:  I used some automated Tinder swiper but the only matches I was getting was to escorts.

I got tired of it and sticking to Okcupid for now.

Is there any way to automate OKC, i.e. like, visit, message?

ios 8 did not solve the problem.... I am disappoint

(05-24-2015 01:37 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  ios 8 did not solve the problem.... I am disappoint

Are you sure? I'm running iOS 8 as well and I can edit my profile just fine. Have you tried reinstalling the app?

(05-24-2015 01:22 PM)Fortis Wrote:  Like, getting a conversation going that leads to a number is rough.

That has been my experience also. No matter what opener I use, the majority of my matches don't even respond at all. A lot of them respond initially, then don't respond to the follow up. It's just hard to really get anything going at all. Very, very few actually keep responding long enough for me to get a # or a meet.

(05-24-2015 02:00 PM)game_ethic Wrote:  

(05-24-2015 01:37 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  ios 8 did not solve the problem.... I am disappoint

Are you sure? I'm running iOS 8 as well and I can edit my profile just fine. Have you tried reinstalling the app?

Not yet... maybe thats a good idea though. Will check back after I try. What version of tinder are you using? Mine is 4.4.6

I noticed I have an unreal amount of girls in my area with mutual friends. Which is a change from a few months ago.. what I don't get is that some 'common connections' have a '1st' beside and others a '2nd'.

(05-24-2015 02:11 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

(05-24-2015 02:00 PM)game_ethic Wrote:  

(05-24-2015 01:37 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  ios 8 did not solve the problem.... I am disappoint

Are you sure? I'm running iOS 8 as well and I can edit my profile just fine. Have you tried reinstalling the app?

Not yet... maybe thats a good idea though. Will check back after I try. What version of tinder are you using? Mine is 4.4.6

Problem was not resolved...aka...fuck my life

(05-24-2015 02:15 PM)rdvirus Wrote:  I noticed I have an unreal amount of girls in my area with mutual friends. Which is a change from a few months ago.. what I don't get is that some 'common connections' have a '1st' beside and others a '2nd'.

I think Tinder changed the algorithm to count mutual friends. Could be that it counts also the mutual friends of your mutual friends. I once found a girl I am friends with on facebook. Tinder showed 44 mutual friends whereas Facebook showed only 4 mutual friends.

I think 1st connection is direct mutual friend

2nd connection is.. she's friends with someone you're friends with.

I think. A friend of a friend

(05-23-2015 01:57 PM)Dipar Wrote:  Has anyone noticed how the amount of Tinder matches decreases with the time you spend in a city? I faked my location a few times to various cities in SEA and in the first few days almost every girl I swiped right was a match. After a week or so I barely got new matches. I wonder what the reason for that is.

@GreenHills: My theory is that if you arrive in a new area, you will show up earlier at most girls Tinder. Sometimes I get a new match just minutes after being in a new city.

That's what I said above http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-19115-...pid1025733

If you're static, the amount of people you have to swipe decreases, and consequently the amount of matches you get, will drop.

It's an unchanging dynamic, only changing your location will alter it.

(05-24-2015 02:09 PM)CleanSlate Wrote:  

(05-24-2015 01:22 PM)Fortis Wrote:  Like, getting a conversation going that leads to a number is rough.

That has been my experience also. No matter what opener I use, the majority of my matches don't even respond at all. A lot of them respond initially, then don't respond to the follow up. It's just hard to really get anything going at all. Very, very few actually keep responding long enough for me to get a # or a meet.

Same experience for me. Very very slow indeed. I've got a good amount of matches to work with, some recent some older. I don't like to sound cynical but it feels like a lot of them like collecting matches.

(05-20-2015 12:56 PM)CleanSlate Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 11:54 AM)Prof. Ligate Wrote:  ^what's your tinder photo situation like?

Pics of you out doing things with friends? doing hobbies? well dressed?

Your image has to be on point

My photos are pretty good. Some professional solo shots. One shirtless and sun-kissed. One suited up "god" shot. One with me in a group of friends. I lowered the upper limit of age that I'm searching for to 28 to weed out the Beta Buck hunters, we'll see how that goes.

Not only that - you should put your own age at 28. Tinder has to be tweaked that way.

(05-24-2015 06:12 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 12:56 PM)CleanSlate Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 11:54 AM)Prof. Ligate Wrote:  ^what's your tinder photo situation like?

Pics of you out doing things with friends? doing hobbies? well dressed?

Your image has to be on point

My photos are pretty good. Some professional solo shots. One shirtless and sun-kissed. One suited up "god" shot. One with me in a group of friends. I lowered the upper limit of age that I'm searching for to 28 to weed out the Beta Buck hunters, we'll see how that goes.

Not only that - you should put your own age at 28. Tinder has to be tweaked that way.

Yep, I am only 27