They (Bumble, but all same company) threatened to ban me because I called them dirty thieves, after I pointed out some dark patterns that they introduced as new features, and they told me they had no plans to revert them. It sucks when there's no stiff competition.
So far, The Beehive (Bumble's company) has managed to avoid being swallowed into the black hole that is Match Group (Match.com, Tinder, OK Cupid, PoF, more...). Though yes, the point stands that competition is rare and thus far every competitor eventually gets swallowed into the black hole. (The assumption for Bumble is not if but when.)
What are some of these dark patterns? I have a subscription to them but am thinking about canceling. They often tell me somebody's matched with me, but when I go to open the app, there are no matches in my queue. I always wonder if it's just a bug or a dark pattern to get you to open the app.
They used to show me how many coins I had purchased at all times, and they used to have a round yellow button on my profile that I'd press to buy more coins when my balance was low. First, they removed the coin balance, and I can only see how many coins I have left for a split second when I spend a coin. Then, They replaced the button to buy coins with a button that looks almost the same (exactly the same at a glance) with the Spotlight button, which costs 2 coins. So, when I noticed that I was running low on coins (on one of the rare times I could actually catch the flash balance), I pressed the button to buy more, and had 2 coins deducted form my account instantly. Of course, considering muscle memory, that happened a couple of times. So, after a few messages explaining the situation and not getting any recourse whatsoever, I called them out and they didn't like it.
Pretty sure this is just crappy microservice engineering where the microservices disagree with each other. I always see the match counter being wrong, matches I declined linger anywhere between an hour and a day...
