Over the past year+, many users on the Hinge subreddit as well as a few in the Game commnuity have reported an unfortunate bug in Hinge where they only see the lowest-rated users in their Discover section. I'm doing a survey to see if we can crowdsource some information on why this might be happening. If this has happened to you, please leave a comment on the following thread in the Hinge subreddit: Investigative survey for users experiencing Hinge's bug that only displays the least-attractive users in Discover
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I'M EXPERIENCING THIS RIGHT NOW! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT
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What you can do is set your age to a very specific range, like 24-25, and distance to 1 mile. You'll exhaust the uggos faster and you can get your 10 free likes in on the normal girls. Then rinse and repeat every day.
Can you let me know the following?
If you've ever been knowingly banned or shadowbanned on either Tinder or Hinge
If you use shirtless or provocative photos on Hinge
If this persists for you despite creating a new account
If this happens shortly after creating your account, or after swiping for a while
If it gets better after swiping for a while, or after a number of days
If it's gotten better after visiting another city and coming back to your city
Hoping we can pool our knowledge to get more insight into what's going on here.
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From what I've seen around the net, many people have this fat and trans "bug" happen first for a lengthy period of time soon after joining before it "gets to normal."
For a few others (including myself), it just randomly starts happening one day then goes endlessly. (Some have stated that they eventually got through the long "wave" of endless back to back to back fats and trans and have returned to normal).
There are also the group who say the waves come and go.
Therefore....... Not sure what to conclude. If the people saying it's our pics or our own profile causing it, then I am very amazed at how great our profiles and pics can be one moment and how terrible they can suddenly become the next... like a stock market share... to cause such a back and forth fluctuation. If it is a result of ELO score, then still, something needs to be fixed if the score keeps having dramatic fluctuations out of the blue for those of us in the US and UK seeing the long extended waves of fat men and women.