OkCupid is a US -based, internationally operating online dating, friendship, and formerly a social networking website and application.
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15 Facts About OkCupid
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OkCupid was originally owned by Humor Rainbow, Inc OkCupid's founders were students at Harvard University when they gained recognition for their creation of TheSpark and, later, SparkNotes.
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In November 2007, OkCupid launched Crazy Blind Date, a no-cost dating service that set people up on blind dates with little to no notice.
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In November 2012, OkCupid launched the social discovery service Tallygram, but retired the service in April 2013.
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OkCupid removed the Sapiosexual identity on February 11,2019, following considerable negative feedback, specifically quoting an article on Vice Magazine.
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In January 2018, OkCupid appointed Ariel Charytan, who was formerly senior vice president of audiobook and podcast company Audible, as CEO.
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In September 2018, OkCupid became the first dating app to create a dedicated space on profiles for LGBTQ daters to share their pronouns, and expanded that feature to all users in July 2020.
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In June 2020, OkCupid released a feature “stacks” that allows app users to view and sort matches based on categories including nearby, online, questions pros, recommended and match percentage.
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In that same month, OkCupid found that daters, coming out of the 2019 Coronavirus Pandemic, were looking for long-term relationships, negating the commonly-held theories of a “hot vaxxed summer” in which daters were looking exclusively for casual relationships.
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In 2014, OkCupid revealed in a blog post that experiments were routinely conducted on OkCupid users.
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In December 2017, OkCupid rolled out a change that would require users to provide their real first name in place of a pseudonym as was previously encouraged.
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In 2017 OkCupid reported on Twitter that they had removed Christopher Cantwell's user profile for being a white supremacist after a woman reported receiving a message from him.
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OkCupid was the first major dating site to offer unlimited messaging free of charge, although this was limited in late 2017 when OkCupid's official blog announced the site is "getting rid of open-messaging" and making sent messages invisible to the sender until the recipient interacts by either matching or replying to the message.
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OkCupid describes in generic terms the algorithm used to calculate match percentages.
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