Girlfriend-hunting in eHarmony now, ladies and gentlemen, is really slow. In my part of town at least. The same About Me profile that bags me 3 respondents out of 10 matches the last time around now gives me barely one. Maybe it is one out of 15 to 20.
I met two ladies from the last free weekend and I expected as much, so that was encouraging. Meanwhile, unemployment is at 11.3% in my city this month, as per the papers. Now that that free weekend is long past, there is no other word to describe this stupor.
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This is the “question of the day” in my head after last weekend’s Free Communication Weekend.
I don’t have children but I am testing out the “No” setting on the “Would you be willing to accept a partner who has children 18 years old or younger living full time in her home?” question.
One of my FCW matches asked me in step three, “Because I have a son, I want to know what are your strategies for dealing with him?” Uh, miss, “what’s in it for me” much?
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I received “romance scam” spam messages yesterday and today on the three email addresses I used to open accounts in eHarmony Advice.
The third one startled me, so I ran several gmail searches to double check and yes, I have never used this email address anywhere else.
This can only mean that a spammer has hacked into the eHarmony Advice forum software (Pringo) and harvested its registrants’ email addresses.
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Sometimes, change helps. Sometimes, it doesn’t. Today’s changes to eHarmony’s interface show how software development works.
Step 1: Selective testing
Last December, eHarmony rolled out a new interface for its new registrants: The “Interested/Maybe” tabs and the “How interested are you in _____?” slider. This blog covered the change only briefly, unfortunately, and nobody here got around to making screenshots. SML did describe the new interface though:
The tabs on the matches page are as follow: New, Communicating, Interested, Maybe, and Closed.
When you look at a match there is this box with “How interested are you in ‘insert name’”. There is a slider thing that says not, somewhat and very. You also have the option of in between not & somewhat and somewhat & very.
All your matches stay in new matches until you submit the slider with your interest level. If you select somewhat or between somewhat & not it moves the match to the maybe tab. If you select very or between somewhat & very it moves them to the interested tab. If you choose not interested it gives you the following options:
– Tell us which match settings “insert name” doesn’t fit (if any)
Distance
Height
Religion
Age
– How complete is “insert name’s” profile?
– How attractive do you find “insert name”?
(This two questions you have the slider with the same options as with how interested are you.)
– If the match has a picture it asks about the quality of the picture.
If have not submitted your interest level on a match and they initiate communication it will show up in your communicating tab and also in the new tab. If you respond to the communication it puts them in your interested tab and communicating tab.
Once a match is moved to the interested and maybe tab and you go back to their profile there is another link that says “Tell us why you are interested in ‘insert name’” where the options are:
– How much do you like “insert name’s” profile? (this one has the slider)
– Is there anything you’d like to tell us about Chris? (this one has a box where you can write whatever you want)
– Quality of the picture.
So that’s what’s new with the matches page. I hope all that makes sense. I could probably do screen shots of my matches page if that would help.
The new interface also had a member name search. Also, note that the “All” tab was gone.
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I’m impressed. This is a big improvement, eHarmony. Kudos.
eHarmony now gives quick and painless refunds to members who forgot that their accounts renew automatically. All the member has to do is call eHarmony Customer Service at 1-800-951-2023 and let them know. For example,
- “I’ve not signed in for months.”
- “I’ve turned off matching weeks ago.”
- “I’ve erased my profile answers weeks ago.”
Unwanted autorenewals are right there among the top eHarmony customer complaints. Finally the company realized that the ill will costs more than the transaction fees to process a refund and “sticking to the Terms of Service which the customer should have read.”
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Posted by
Pyke on 16 February 2009
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Yes you can say I changed the setting because of her. Well, not really OF HER, it was more of, "Fuck it, let's use Occam's Razor. If I'm generally getting the same results with women with small kids and with women without, let's remove the extra parts." Plus I saw Jerry Maguire the first time …
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