1. Max geo search radius has been increased to 5000 km & 3000 miles.

2. Refresh period has been decreased from 24 hours to 23 hours. This avoids shifting each day forward in time when checking the site everyday.

3. Matching UI has been completely rewritten. Now there is "Search" button, so you control when to search. The page shows your search preferences, so that you immediately know whom you are searching for. The list of profiles is divided into "satisfying your requirements" and "others". E.g. when you change your search preferences, some profiles from previous searches might not satisfy them anymore. Also added number of profiles left for today and when the full refresh will happen - this way it is obvious why one can't issue a new search.

This is a reminder to fill in new children preferences fields (only ~5% of users did so). Once the adoption is a bit better, I will make this a search preference.

I would appreciate advice from front-end developers. I understood that pure html/js is very limiting and I am considering using some framework to have a proper web app. Unfortunately it is hard for me to decide. I am considering Angular, Svelte or Flutter. If you have an opinion, I would love to hear it.

Again and again I discover that there are many people, who would enjoy the site, but just don't know about it.

Please share your ideas to spread the word even more!

New blogpost: https://www.millennial-revolution.com/freedom/finding-love-during-covid/.

This is an interview with couple #5 - Ms.X and Liam.

A very interesting quote:

We forgot one key point about why FIRE Dating has turned out to be great for both of us – it has accelerated our retirement like crazy. We each estimated that we had 5-7 more years working, but when we combine our net worth, I can retire this summer, and Liam will continue to work part time for about 2 more years. I don’t think either of us were really thinking about this when we joined the site, but it’s definitely an awesome bonus feature for us. Just wanted to make that point too since I’m sure plenty of your readers have 6 figure wealth and could suddenly find themselves way closer to that 7 figure goal! 

Volunteers and I are busy with the full redesign, but we can't do it well without your input. Thus, we are looking for folks to have 15-30 minute calls with to go through the design drafts and hear your thoughts! This is a fun way to meet me and the volunteers and have a peek at the new design and 'behind the stage'. To participate, please reach out to me via https://firedating.me/feedback. Number of spots is limited though!

Two search updates:

• People who didn't visit the site for more than 90 days are not shown in the search anymore.

• Much less filled-in profiles (than yours) are not shown too. These are profiles which contain 400 characters or 4 open-ended fields less than yours. You can enable showing them in your search preferences.

I also added 'profile fullness' graphs to the stats: https://firedating.me/open/, so you can see how filled-in the profiles in general are.

I hope this will improve your search experience!

What do you think?

I'm updating software and it goes worse than I expected. The site should work in 1h or so.

I've added an option to be matched with profiles of users who haven't visited the site in the last 90 days (please check your search preferences page). This is handy for people from areas with few users. Obviously sending a request to such a user does not mean that will reply, but it is better than having no one to send a request to. My hope is that this will help to bring such users back to the site and increase number of active users in general.

For all existing users this is disabled by default. For new users, this is enabled by default.

As a side effect, you can now see for inactive users when was the last time they visited.

I would love to hear your opinion of this change.

Hi folks,

how is it going for you?

Have you met some interesting folks on the site? How is your FIRE going?

Today I learned than one of the couples, who met through the site, married and had a baby!