"From checking his profile, turns out they live close and probably go to the some of the meets and greets that we go to. We shall see how funny he is in person!"
LOL @ MOE! I just love your use of exclamation points for emphasis! You're such an excitable person!
Absolutely! Such a wonderfully great idea and night to never forget!
:-)
~Allen
Well damn - that's the best news about this site I've seen in a long time.
VAcouple: “Wayne could be doing something useful like tackling the backlog of Hot Date posts in an effort to bring the turnaround time down”
We posted a test hotdate in a city far from where we live. The hotdate went live almost immediately, and we got responses starting five minutes after that.
I’m sorry but this is a complete fail. You took what was an easy to use interface that filterered clubs and hot dates by the users chosen distance and turned it into this difficult to find what you want thing of an event calendar. I know you SLS admin are always right and refuse to listen to your customers, so again we’ll be exercising our right not to pay for membership when it comes due in three weeks. It really is a shame. We loved this site and now the things that made us feel that way have been ripped apart.
Hate. Hate. Hate the new Hot Dates. The 1:1 is bad but we rarely meet folks through there it’s the events/clubs/party section that is awful. I live in metro Los Angeles and zero events between here and Vegas?! No way!!
SLS bring back the functional Hot Date page, please!!!
It would be nice too if I could see the last message on chat too while you’re at it.
Personally, we would like to request that you don’t continue significantly investing in the SLS Mobile App. Focus on the web sort because, we will never down load this app onto our mobile devices out of fear that we will be discovered . I do most of my visits in Safari Privacy Mode on my iPhone.
Hate. Hate. Hate the new Hot Dates. The 1:1 is bad but we rarely meet folks through there it’s the events/clubs/party section that is awful. I live in metro Los Angeles and zero events between here and Vegas?! No way!!
SLS bring back the functional Hot Date page, please!!!
It would be nice too if I could see the last message on chat too while you’re at it.
Personally, we would like to request that you don’t continue significantly investing in the SLS Mobile App. Focus on the web sort because, we will never down load this app onto our mobile devices out of fear that we will be discovered . I do most of my visits in Safari Privacy Mode on my iPhone.
The thing that still makes me the most pizzed off is them blowing away our entire email history. But they've fucked up so many other things since that that one seems like ancient history now.
This is all of course intended to push us all to the app. I won't do it. We are not putting a lifestyle app on our phones where others might find it. End of story.
The only, and I mean ONLY redeeming quality to Allen's posts is they are amusing and put a smile on my face when I read them.
From checking his profile, turns out they live close and probably go to the some of the meets and greets that we go to. We shall see how funny he is in person! Will keep you good folks updated!
Back to topic: The concept of "Tough luck, adjust" has sunk many web sites and companies in the past. Dinosaurs that do not evolve eventually die. A house of cards collapses suddenly without notice. The hot date changes were clearly were done without sufficient understating of the use cases, and now they are scrambling to fix the debaucle. Email went a similar route, and god knows what next after this! The issue is with the mentality, and is probably not fixable.
At this point, this should be painfully obvious - the site's management doesn't give a gnat's fart about the feedback they get from changes like this and we are wasting our time complaining about it. Instead of writing forum posts Wayne could be doing something useful like tackling the backlog of Hot Date posts in an effort to bring the turnaround time down.
Notice that SLS itself continues to use email to send their promotional emails to all of us. Why don't they send us instant messages instead? Because they suck. They know they suck. Sending us their promo stuff via message would be negative for them, so they dont do it. What's negative for us, however, is really not important.
TallSwingers, "My Space" thats to funny but true. Under the the new Hot date , if you were visiting the Syracuse area and posted that... we'd never know because of a one year off in the age range. Not that we're all that but the new system will limit couples like us that may want to respond. It should be up to the poster of the hot date to decide if they want to reply or not....NOT some stupid computer algorithm.
lol Mayhem!
I didn’t have time at the moment or it also would have contained Nature’s Bounty popping,’ Geritol slingin’, Fiber One drinkin’!
:-)
~Allen
THIS may be the final death cough of this antiquated website. When the administrators disregard the masses and continue to make strides backward, people leave. Remember MySpace? Me either.
Unless I missed something, this filtering applies only to Hot Date postings. As far as I know, it doesn't restrict you from seeing profiles so I could still reach out to anyone with my "AARP, depends wearing ass" LOL
Even if it did apply to profiles, it still wouldn't be that big a deal to us because we rely so little on online interactions. We do most of our interactions at various types of LS parties, so being able to find and evaluate those easily is of more importance than the fact someone can now place restrictions on their Hot Dates.
Wayne tried to email/ IM you.. but everything disappeared including ones to you in our old system too.. several times while having a conversation with one in our IM section.. something is going on now as we speak?
Hi Moe, thanks for the help, but I got this , may I suggest you re-enroll for etiquette sake. Oh, also, your foodies and stuffed animals are not countable as friends.
Btw, what you want is everyone to sift thru crap to find gold. Some other sites make finding a targeted audience from the profile easier this way and works very well. We certainly don’t need your step backwards.
~Allen
based on this logic, then we should never seen any other members of SLS except in our age range. We will never get to see friends profiles that we met in meets and greets or parties and we happen to fall outside of their age range. SLS should not assume the role of deciding who can contact who.
Allen, No need to insult other members. They teach respect in school!
Jim, SLS doesn’t pick the age group a hot date poster wants. TBH, it’s a long overdue change to keep the likes of your whiney,butt hurt, sidecar thinking, AARP, depends wearing ass from contacting us with tiring, meaningless, unwarranted, dried up persuasions of solicitations about how exceptional you are and how you act much younger than you actually are that we don’t want to endure any further.
Before you take your ball and go home, because now you ain’t got a shot, update your profile’s pictures and weight because we know those are falsified too.
There, all better now. :-)
~Allen
if you're truly concerned about quality for your users, then listen to what everyone is saying and change it back ! You are not proving a quality service or change to that service if you are getting this many complaints ! I want to know in who's mind is this a quality change because I haven't seen one post yet that seems to say they are embracing this arbitrary change!
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px">"Since all the hot dates were visible prior to the change, and the poster was still required to submit an age range, the only logical answer is the new sls algorithm for hot dates restricts what a person can see."</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Yes, exactly! We restrict what you see based on YOU telling us what you want to see and what you don't want to see. That is the WHOLE purpose of a personals site and it is what EVERY personals site and every swingers site does. The old algorithm restricted what a person could see as well, but it was not as robust and not as accurate. Its about quality over quantity. The old system gave you more quantity over quality. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Customer Service - Wayne</span></p>
Its downright laughable that anyone would "make things abundantly clear" by stating it isn't sls that restricts hot date viewing, its the poster. Since all the hot dates were visible prior to the change, and the poster was still required to submit an age range, the only logical answer is the new sls algorithm for hot dates restricts what a person can see. Trying to blame the hot date users for the change in the algorithm is ridiculous. After all, it wasn't the users that created the change, it was the sls team, aka sls.
Sorry Allen, but right back at you. The logic you have used to draw your conclusion is flawed, at least as we see it. We agree you will not post anything further worthy of reading, as you have stated about us. We can live with that. :)
Maybe I'm missing it?
Why are the only events I see in the app hot dates? No other events.
@SLS_WayneC
""if they specify females only, she can’t see their hotdate posting. Way to discriminate SLS."
You have a couple profile. If they are only setting it to single females then they are not interested in YOUand do not want to see YOU because you have a couple profile. If they are interested in couples, they should indicate that in the Hot Date or Profile. If your wife participates as a single, she needs to create a single female profile for herself and pay for it. That has always been the policy of the site. A couple profile should always be used as a couple. A single profile should always be used as a single.
Customer Service - Wayne"
Okay, I can kind of understand that if a committed couple are allowed to play separately that the rules would require them to have separate profiles for that. Those additional profiles would be somewhat permanent and even can be utilized in the event of a breakup. But in my situation which is the opposite I think that's asking a bit too much.
As a single female I am now blocked from seeing any Hot Dates that are looking for couples. I have a few FWBs that we will play as a couple together at appropriate times. These FWBs come and go, find a relationship and move on, or whatever. We have fun while it lasts, no expectations, nothing permanent. What the rules are implying and now enforcing is that every FWB and I would need to create a paid profile to be able to see and respond to the Hot Dates that are looking for couples only. I (or he) can no longer respond saying "Hey, my FWB and I would be interested in joining you. Here's his (or her) profile, take a look and let us know if you'd be interested in playing." Now I/we would need to create a paid profile for a maybe one-time occurrence. I can't even see the Hot Date to know if it's something we'd be up for or interested in, we'd have to have a paid couples profile just to find out. I'd have to be constantly creating couples profiles for brief interludes, paying for them, then deleting them when they move on.
As to the age range hard filter I'm kind of on the fence. Yes, I don't appreciate it when I get hit up by folks decades below or above my range. But that's not to say it's a hard and fast rule, I have been known to accept that occasional boy toy if he has the right attitude.
Thanks for working on getting the Events back on the calendar. I also much prefer finding everything in one place as opposed to having to set search filters and check several different tabs.
And FYI - thanks for listening/reading. They fixed an issue where I as a single female wasn't seeing any Hot Dates from males. And the calendar now displays a full month of dates instead of just a week. Good to see a positive response.
All we are seeing is couples. Which is really odd because single men are always traveling to the LA area looking to hook up.
The new hotdate page needs some serious tweaks. It appears that some of those tweaks are happening. It’s hard to believe, but SLS may actually be listenening to some of the members’ complaints.
The truth is that the old hotdates page (just like the old email) was crap. The new hot date format has the potential to be much, much better. Let’s hope the tweaks keep coming.
Now, if they’d only fix that abomination of a messaging system...
FWIW Ed, nobody suggested there were none within a 1000 miles. You made the 1000 miles search and information made available AFTER I said maybe you didn’t meet criteria, which I assumed was based on the 50 mile default because no other information was made available to draw a conclusion otherwise.
~Allen
