Two things.. last Saturday I set up a ‘date’ for us to talk using the Hinge in app Phone feature. It was there during the week, but disappeared on the day of the call. It looks like Hinge has removed the in app call and video feature. Which sucks. I felt like that was an extra layer of protection. We had to exchange phone numbers to move forward with calling each other. The replacement features Hinge added were, adding a video to your profile and adding a voice message recorder to the message area. I started using that because it is a little more personal and my personality comes out better than via text.
I found out I can have more than 10 messages going at a time. It was just a strange anomaly that one person always disappeared and a new one added keeping me at 10 messages. Highest number so far has been 16, I’m sure people much cooler than me have gotten way more.
This is the data at Day 34 of my Hinge use.
Totals to date:
205 People
34 Matched = 17% , out of those 17 Unmatched later = 52% (of the people I matched with). My matches are holding steady and unmatches have declined, that’s good.
82 Likes You = 40% AND 123 Compatible = 60% (These numbers are holding steady. I will point out some of the earliest online line guestimates I read were people getting 10 likes a week. Mine is averaging out to 16 per week. Not that I’m above average, but I think it’s hard to really know unless you’re tracking this shit. So I am).
For message I sent I got 31 responses = 15%, out of those 6 are still responding = 16% of responses (The responses are hold the same, BUT number of people that are still responding have declined. I am a bit guilty to of stalling out some conversations. On average the other people are stalling it out more than me.)
135 Males = 66% , 64 Female = 31% , 6 Other = 3% (I have been getting more woman in my feed than before. I did go into my ‘preferences’ and adjust the height. I had the height too high. I don’t like dating men that are shorter than me – the dreaded Napoleon complex, but for women I don’t care. I forgot to take that into account when setting up the profile.)
The Big Pink Bang Theory 