you have thirst buckets who explode a females inbox as soon as they log in so they only allow the ugly thirst buckets to reach out to attractive women If they’re too attractive you have to pay to talk to them Then Badoo says they don’t want to overwhelm a female with her inbox messages but they don’t mind allowing the thirst buckets who are linking their bank account to this site to explode their inbox Oh and now they don’t even allow you to like females near you unless you pay lol I also notice when I write an attractive girl and she response the message suddenly disappears. It’s almost like they’re running a brothel and allow you to talk to the pretty women if you pay. Update if you talk to a girl and she starts getting lots of messages they just remove them from your conversations probably in search of more money Basically getting money for women on this site… do you share any of the money you make from the “popular girls” with the “popular girls”? Or do ya just profit off of them? UPDATE Now that I wrote this review THEYRE not giving me no girls near me and the ones that are they’re not allowing me to write to… talk about extortion UPDATE SINCE I WROTE THIS ABOUT BADOO THEY NOW DONT SHOW ME ANY GIRLS NEAR ME ONLY GIRLS IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND IF A GIRL SENDS ME HER NUMBER THEY DELETE EVERY MESSAGE YOU EXCHANGED AND BLOCK THEM FOR YOU LIKE I SAID IF YOU DONT PAY THE PIMP (Badoo) YOU CANT TALK TO ANY FEMALE

UPDATE; i know there’s distance filters, Devs. but that’s useless if you allow people to set their location anywhere they want to type in. i’ve gotten exactly one person that is actually in my state, let alone country out of 70~ matches and conversations. wasted time. wasted money. wasted effort. and what a shame because this actually makes matchgroup look good by comparison, and they’re unscrupulous opportunists. ORIGINAL; i’ve matched with countless people, the interface works well enough, but with zero moderation apparently, because not a single person i’ve talked to in three weeks actually lives in Miami. Dominican Republic, Ukraine, Kenya, Columbia, Cuba, Anguila, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, BUT NOT MIAMI. apparently you can put whatever you want for your location so the local listings are absolutely filled with people who don’t live anywhere near me but it still says ~10 miles away. less than useless. a complete waste of my time and money for weeks and weeks. buyer beware if you live in a popular destination. support offered me 200 POINTS when i brought up these issues. you can report and report and report and they do absolutely nothing about it. badoo deserves to be buried in a landfill and returned to its makers as a complete failure and waste of human effort.

Sharp decline in the past year and a half. Nearby is bugged showing the same profiles, Encounter stack incidentally shows profiles that aren’t under Nearby and conveniently removes them from the latter after right swiping. Its upper hand over other dating apps is its ability to view and message profiles in a limited capacity. Between the surge in AI profiles and a cohort of Philippine-based profiles suspiciously looking for relationships predominantly in USA, its compromised the organic flow of the app as your local stack is inundated by users from the Philippines. I would suggest they start locking foreign locations behind any of the several subscription models available — ideally a win for its user base by fostering more domestic users while capitalizing on an additional source of revenue. That said, for a rather lowkey app, I’ve found the most success over the years with this surpassingly so. Perhaps adding likable blurbs to profiles might just be the next big move as it seems to have lead the top 2 dating apps to success. Weed out the fake AI Asian profiles especially, revamp the UI/UX to be more simplistic … maybe more of a base can be established.