If it walks like a duck, and it looks like a duck…
… sometimes it is indeed a duck, but sometimes it is a skunk cosplaying as a duck. Taimi is the latter. Taimi stinks, it already stank, but now it stinks even more. It brands itself LGBTQ+ Dating and Chat. However, Taimi is an unserious dating app pretending to be serious. It fails at this, badly.
If you haven’t done so already, I do invite you to read my previous take on Taimi. You’ll see there that I had high hopes for it, but that those hopes were dashed. The developers of this app like to treat their users as lab rats, and in doing so the app went from bad to worse, much, much worse. Taimi is now even worse than when I wrote that previous article. (I also do not want to rehash my demographics. You’ll find them there.)
The recent changes they made to the app are all designed to make users like other users without meaning it. In my previous installment, I had mentioned that from time to time they present you with the opportunity to perform a mass-like of people, sight unseen. It seems to me that this is a recipe for people to erroneously send you a like. I’m not going to go into details, but they made more changes to the UI that make it even more likely that people will send you likes that they don’t mean to send.
How do I know this?
For the past two months or so, I’ve been regularly getting likes. I connect with some of them… but they do not speak, or they immediately disconnect from me. Those I do not connect with are evident mistakes. Like for instance, monogamous people being interested in me, who is polyamorous. This tells me that their likes were not real to begin with, and who could blame them? Taimi has evolved in a way that makes liking someone by mistake so easy.
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This push towards unserious connections also causes people to stop taking potential connections seriously. If I get a deluge of likes from people who made mistakes, what are the chances that the next like I get is going to be from someone who is in fact serious? Slim to none. Taimi subjects you to a barrage of rejections from people who mistapped their screen, and this grates pretty badly.
I submit that the people who will tolerate this unseriousness are themselves unserious. There you have it: Taimi is an unserious dating app for unserious folks.
I’ve been over six months now on Taimi. I’ve gotten exactly zero dates from it. I’ve gotten a few connections, but a lot of them went absolutely nowhere fast. I managed to talk dates with a few of my connections, but eventually the chat faltered, and after weeks of silence on their part, I ended it. Unserious is the name of the game.
I always say that I’m not setting the town on fire. However, in the same time span that I’ve been on Taimi, I’ve easily gone to three dates on Feeld. Two of those dates led to intimacy. I should mention that, although I still have Feeld account, and I scan there for potential connections daily, I no longer subscribe to Feeld. So these dates happened without me spending any money on the app.
All the changes they are making to Taimi are designed to part a fool and his money. It constitutes the perfect example of developers who add misfeatures not because users clamored for these misfeatures, but because they think these misfeatures will increase the revenue. Now, I did pay initially because I did not see myself giving it a fair shake if I did not. After all, I did pay for other dating apps that I reviewed, at least initially. However, I did not renew once my subscription expired.
Now, all dating apps suck, and they are all designed to part a fool with his money. Still some suck more than others. Where does this leave me? As much as it may suck, Feeld is still my best option. Far in second place is OkCupid. The rest of the bunch is not worth my while. Taimi is unfortunately part of the bunch that is not worth my while. I deleted my account there while writing this article.
So long, and thanks for nothing.
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