How does removing visitors help? As someone who is generally introverted and tends to seek out other introverts, replying to people who “visited” me but never messaged, I’ve gotten a 1/5th response. Sometimes I’ll get a visit, I’ll follow up, I’ll “like” them and find out they liked me to. Who ever decided to remove this is a complete moron.
I have a friend who is engaged from a “ice breaker” on your site like 8 years ago. A feature you removed. I found a wonderful relationship, and still a GREAT friend, because they read a “review” someone left for me, thought I sounded funny and responded. Another feature you removed.
Visitors, ice breakers, reviews… all features that I’ve seen work… but you are focusing on removing features that have proven results because when people meet, start dating, they CANCEL their memberships. You’ve slowly been turning OKCupid in to a Tinder style meet market where people write more detailed profiles to pretend they have depth when they just want sex. Over last 2 years, every damn responses I get on here is booty calls… Yet the booty call site I’m on, I wound up in a relationship.
You want to make changes, fine…stop telling us it’s cause you want whats best for us.