Reddit’s popular r\/Bumble community – where half a million people share dating stories and discuss app features – has largely questioned the platform’s rule changes.<\/p>\n
In particular, users have asked how Bumble was now different from any other dating app.<\/p>\n
“If you women want men to message first, use a different app,” one person wrote, while another said they “really valued” women making the first move. <\/p>\n
“Women get swamped with messages, so any woman who messaged me showed real interest,” they said.<\/p>\n
Others argued the feature had already been diluted when Bumble introduced “Opening Moves” – a feature allowing women to set a pre-written prompt for men to respond to.<\/p>\n
But some women said they supported the change – or admitted they had grown frustrated with initiating conversations only to receive no reply.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, men barely responded when I messaged first on Bumble,” said one person, while another claimed the “majority” of men they messaged “let our matches expire.”<\/p>\n
Professional matchmaker Sarah Louise Ryan welcomed the move, saying Bumble’s signature feature had “run its course”.<\/p>\n
“At first, the idea was empowering, but over time the novelty wore off,” she told BBC News.<\/p>\n
“Women were effectively being asked to hold the narrative and energy of the connection, while men were left feeling passive or anxious.<\/p>\n
“Bumble had real success with that positioning initially, but they relied on it for too long and failed to adapt as the dating landscape shifted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reddit’s popular r\/Bumble community – where half a million people share dating stories and discuss app features –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}