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What 27 levels of compatibility did eHarmony use for this (image)

Posted by eharmonyblog on 20 January 2010 under Blog posts · Comments (0)

wil kitteh yoose eharmonee agin?

Cat and Bird are not compatible

(icanhascheezburger.com, dated January 20)

 

From Carsonified: How eHarmony Kills the Romance With A/B Testing

Posted by eharmonyblog on 11 January 2010 under Blog posts · Comments (0)

Christine Brodigan (@tenaciouscb), online user-experience product designer, shows her hate of those early-morning “new match notifications”.

Match, Chemistry and a handful of others never shocked me with their emails (some of the usernames that men choose did). However, eHarmony stood out of the crowd for a few reasons:

  • rapid-fire morning messages, usually between 4 and 8 in a row (like I was under fire from the “matchmaking tool”)
  • radically different branded email templates
  • really bad subject lines, all different, but with the same purpose

Beginning January 4, 2010, my inbox filled with an even more challenging set of differing subject lines. More challenging because the messaging was all over the place. Was I a user more interested in “activities,” “spark,” “unique,” “common,” or greatness? I felt like it was eHarmony having the problem ordering off a menu of men and not me. I wanted simple and given to me straight up.

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December 30-January 3: eHarmony US’s Twenty-first Free Communication Weekend

Posted by eharmonyblog on 22 December 2009 under Blog posts · Comments (2)

AndrinaAndrina of DealGuild seems to have the inside scoop and is able to announce that the 2009 Year-end Free Communication Weekend is a five-day affair starting on December 30, 2009.

Will it be extended two days, too, like the FCW last November? Very likely.

Tip: FCW participants cannot initiate, accept or reject FastTrack, so don’t initiate FastTrack with them this weekend or communication would be stuck.

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  • wrote

    Well, my subscription ran out a couple of weeks ago and I plan on using this opportunity to try and get the few matches I have in the process to move it along or at the very least "sneak" in my email address. I do think the least useful part of FCW is not being able to see pictures even thoug eH …

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OkCupid is now on the iPhone; eHarmony is …, well, will it ever be?

Posted by eharmonyblog on 02 December 2009 under Blog posts · Comments (0)

OkCupid iPhone AppIt was all worth the wait for OkCupid members. The new OkCupid iPhone App (review by reader Dave Evans) brings a lot of the site’s essential functions to the device.

  • Mail and messaging
  • Member search
  • Take and upload photos from the iPhone
  • “Who has viewed me” list
  • OkCupid’s never-ending “Improve matches” quiz

OkCupid focused on the feature set that members will most often use while on the go. The app is a free download from the Apple App Store.

When Match.com’s iPhone app came out six months ago, SingleGuyInNC said that eHarmony, with its drawn-out Guided Communication process and where members cannot search for people that are nearby and “available”, will never really work as a mobile app. Do you agree with him?

 

“Did I give eHarmony $100 to match me up with a bunch of people that I’ll never be able to talk to?”

Posted by eharmonyblog on 28 October 2009 under Blog posts · Comments (10)

(Republished in entirety with permission from johnsmith3487, dated October 7, 2009. Thanks, John!)

Dafearon wrote:

johnsmith3487 wrote,

“I don’t understand why there is so little activity among my matches. … Did I give eHarmony $100 to match me up with a bunch of people that I’ll never be able to talk to?”

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  • Tom wrote

    SincerlyEhtical, I have the exact same reasons for online matchmaking as you do. My biggest reason for not getting dates with ladies in the "offline world" (and hence the reason I get few matches on Eharmony) is that I do not want kids. In the offline world "kids" is not something you can bring up e …

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When is it time to ask for more?

Posted by Joeybsmooth on 26 October 2009 under Blog posts · Comments (5)

Hello,

I have been talking to this young lady for about 30 days now . When and how should I move the relationship along? I am digging her like I was a undertaker.

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  • Joey wrote

    I will be , and I will keep trying . Thank you for your long post . That took time . …

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