Have you experienced a bug in Hinge that only shows you fat/ugly chicks?
15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
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:
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15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
It's not the Elo score, Alex misunderstood the issue. What you and I have experienced is a bug (or potentially something more nefarious) where Hinge's sorting algorithm gets reversed and you see the most unattractive users first.
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.
Thanks.
Yes, happened to me for a while, now it is gone.
15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
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.
402 Posts (+1.3K), 16K Cmts (+5.4K)
it's called the low ELO score. You can fix it by getting pictures.
15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
No, it's not. Click the links in the reddit post. This happens to many guys, regardless of pictures or attractiveness of profile. It's a bug in Hinge.
402 Posts (+1.3K), 16K Cmts (+5.4K)
post a screenshot of your profile and ill tell you very quickly if its your pics or a "bug"
4 Posts (+1), 13 Cmts (+0)
I'M EXPERIENCING THIS RIGHT NOW! I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT
15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
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.
0 Posts (+0), 2 Cmts (+0)
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.
40 Posts (+34), 104 Cmts (+53)
Happened to me actually for quite a while but doesn’t seem to be the case now.
Was annoying at the start, having to sit there for a long period of time until finding someone attractive. But just stuck through it and worked on actually getting the matches. I found that I managed to match with most chicks I liked. And the more I matched with, the more hot girls were being shown to me. Strange I guess but that’s just my experience with it. Now I find Hinge to be easier than Tinder and Bumble.
15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)
Yep, that's what I've heard from other guys as well, that if you get some matches it eventually goes back to normal. You can also get around it by setting your age/distance settings really low, and clearing out all the ugly girls in that setting, then slowly working back up from there.
Can you let me know the following?
Hoping we can pool our knowledge to get more insight into this bug.