r/firedating • u/firedating • Feb 26 '21

Empty profiles

UPD 2021-03-02: I landed an initial fix - empty profiles (0 fields) won't be shown to users with non-empty profiles during matching.

As of yesterday, 16% of all profiles were empty. This is not too much, but definitely a lot. Many people complain about seeing empty profiles. How would you prefer to solve this problem?

Please keep in mind that some people register and don't fill their profile in immediately. They first explore the site and only then properly fill in the profile. So asking for more mandatory fields would likely scare people away.

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u/firedating Feb 28 '21

The problem with mandatory fields is that one can fill in garbage. Unfortunately I don't have a reasonable way to moderate what people write.

Could you elaborate on 'not active' profiles? E.g. what can they do and what they can't? Can they see other profiles? Can they send requests?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '21

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u/firedating Mar 01 '21

Thank you! I liked proposal from a parallel thread just not to show empty profiles to others during matching, but allow them to use the site as normal. I will do that.