How about the first meeting not be any sort of date, and no chatting options ahead of time.
You sign into an app to indicate you are available for a spontaneous introduction.
If two matched users are within the vicinity of one another, then each receives a notification that someone they have been matched with is nearby. If both agree, the introduction is arranged at some public space. This does away with all the stress of an actual date, plus no actual time commitment.
(Note that I'm not addressing the matching process.)
One point I didn't see or missed in the article is that for men who have no problems getting dates offline, why would they go through the huge PITA of online dating? What does that do to the pool?
You sign into an app to indicate you are available for a spontaneous introduction.
If two matched users are within the vicinity of one another, then each receives a notification that someone they have been matched with is nearby. If both agree, the introduction is arranged at some public space. This does away with all the stress of an actual date, plus no actual time commitment.
(Note that I'm not addressing the matching process.)
One point I didn't see or missed in the article is that for men who have no problems getting dates offline, why would they go through the huge PITA of online dating? What does that do to the pool?