[LOCKED]Hot Date/Event Display

Interesting. Saw a Hot Date where the couple is looking for couples and/or female/male. We both fall into the specified age range in their profile, but they must have specified a lower age range in their Hot Date because it says we don't meet their age or relationship criteria. Weird.

ALL of this makes me glad that we depend very little on this to meet people as compared to LS parties, but now finding parties on the dates we have free has become harder.

Wayne, perhaps I'm missing the logic here but even you have to admit that it now takes many more clicks to see the same info that was once on one page. If you attend various party types you now have to click on Clubs, Socials, Parties, SLS Groups, and the Other tabs just to see all of the parties that used to be on one page AND show the Hot Dates as well. It was also all on a nice calendar so that you could see what was going on for the specific days that you had available to attend parties and/or go on Hot Dates.

Again, I suspect this was done in support of the App, but if so, the App is breaking some of what was the best parts of SLS. Ignorance is bliss I suppose for new members because they will have no idea what they missed.

I want to echo what most everyone else is saying. The best part if this website was the calendar view of events. Please add/return that feature.
Thank you

Age isn't the only problem. When the wife wants to look at hot dates for herself, if they specify females only, she can’t see their hotdate posting. Way to discriminate SLS.

I glossed right over the age ranges of the Hot Date and thought it was working off the profile preferences. As we know, people tend to not update their ages and are even less likely to update their age ranges in their profile.

I just clicked on adding a hot date and realized that they are part of the hot date form itself and not the profile settings. So yeah 888, it serves no useful purpose to change the age on our profile if people are in fact specifying a preference on their hot date. Lying about our age/s would allow us to see Hot Dates outside of someone's age range, but I already tend not to reach out to people like that out of respect for their preferences.

It's still not clear to me if, when it's a couple, does the age range limit things based on the youngest or oldest partner?

I totally agree with you. Since we paid the lifetime fee this site has gone backwards. No more bird flying-emails, just messaging. Back in the olden days you used to be able to send a wink to say that you were interested. That went away. Then I signed on today to find out that the events have been removed from the hot date calendar. Go ahead and click on that calendar and see how exciting it is. Blah! Let's hope that this is just a construction phase.

Nobody is on SLS because of its primitive interface, its because it is the largest LS site around. Unfortunately, they keep doing their best to make it the worst as well. The new hot dates/events calendar was great. Now it sucks. Why change something that works for something that is worse? Really! The mail system worked fine, but now it's all the stupid chat feature. Why are they working so hard to make the site worse?

Mayhem: Wait a sec, you are referring to being out of someone's preferences of age. As I recall, the previous person said to put the age in the comment section and fake ages in the profile. Now, as we know with preferences, everybody has them, albeit height, weight, sizes, colors, locations...etc Now, my question is, if I or anyone else have an age preference, why would folks want to be deceptive and outright lie and waste someone's time?

~Allen

SLS = What can we do today?

SLS = Let's take something on the site that works perfectly fine and change it up. Let's say we change out the mail system and bring in an old
outdated Instant Message system.

Mbrs = We liked our old mail system and we hate the new instant messages. Bring back mail, it worked fine.

SLS = We hear you, we support you and we want to keep you happy.

SLS = Today, let's take something that works perfectly fine and change it up. Let's say we change the Hot Date/Events Calendar with something
that makes it even harder for our members to use and follow.

Mbrs = We liked our old Hot Date Calendar and we hate the new calendar. Bring back our old Hot Date Calendar, it worked fine.

SLS = We hear you, we support you and we want to keep you happy.

SLS = Today, let's take something that works perfectly fine and change it up. (Insert Changes Here)

Mbrs = We liked our old (Insert Old Item Here) and we hate the new (Insert Change Here), bring back the old (Insert Old Item Here)

SLS = We hear you, we support you and we now have your money. Hope you like the new changes and we look forward to giving you many more.

"As someone prior mentioned, you can always set your age/s to be less than what they really are and put your real ages in your profile. Something I'd prefer not to do, but SLS is kind of pushing us in that direction. "

Mayhem, that's just it, people are complaining they need to do that, when in fact, you put the desired age range in the hot date form itself, nothing in your profile needs changed. So if you are posting a hot date, it is as usual with the exception that they filter who can/cannot see it based on the form you fill out with the criteria you're wanting to contact you.

~Allen

Absolutely ridiculous. If their dates and events section remains as is we are out of here.

Nobody is going to complain about genuinely expanded functionality. What happened is SLS reduced functionality and made it harder to use the site. Again.
That the changes being made in the name of the app is extra frustrating because although a few people may say "we want an app" the reality is there's no need whatsoever for an app. All that's needed is to ensure the site works on a phone browser - which it did a year ago before the recent changes made the site less user friendly.
We wouldn't install an app, anyway, because if a family member picks up our phone we wouldn't want to have to explain what said app is for.

I can't speak for Wayne, but in this case I can probably guess what he will say to some. If you are not seeing the # of hot dates your were and want to see more, modify your date ranges so you can see a larger audience. Especially if you would consider some exceptional specimens that happen to be above your current date range. This is something within your control.

As someone prior mentioned, you can always set your age/s to be less than what they really are and put your real ages in your profile. Something I'd prefer not to do, but SLS is kind of pushing us in that direction.

I'm really surprised nobody has complained of the app and it's ability to show nearby swingers on a physical map in a location you choose.

~Allen

Hot date is completely useless to me now...it was one of my go to features of being a member for parties and travelling to other cities. This change if not put back will cause me to cancel immediately. Sorry there are other site way more user friendly.

Hot date is completely useless to me now...it was one of my go to features of being a member for parties and travelling to other cities. This change if not put back will cause me to cancel immediately. Sorry there are other site way more user friendly.

Like everyone else I dislike the new " changes" to the site over the last few months...Email was an effective way to communicate with people...The main problem with IMing people especially as a single male is that your kind of bombarding couples with IMs but its the only way to contact people that you have an interest in possibly meeting...or learning more information from..A number of couples profiles express specifically that single males not IM them but Email instead...but 6 of one half dozen of the other...Now this latest change from Hot Date really hurts especially if one travels often...Im in Las Vegas for example a few times a year...seeking people to meet with while there and looking at Hot Date 2-3 weeks in advance really helped in planning...My guess is that SLS wants people to use their app more than their website..since the focus seems to be to compete with Tinder than other lifestyle sites...I just wish that SLS had at least polled lifetime members their opinion before making changes...but that's just me

“ I liked how it would show events and hot dates . you put the cursor over those items in a day box and they simply opened up for a quick scan. That is now out the window?”

Scroll down to the bottom of the calendar, there is a list without the pop up.

~Allen

Ironic this change seems to fall right in line with and was brought about by complaints of paying members not wanting to sift thru numerous hot dates trying to find a match as well as being contacted by those not even compatible in profiles to what those posting a hot date contained, also made by numerous paying members just last year.

~Allen

Well, considering my age and being a single male, I am now more aware than ever than this site is truly for swinging other than cuckold and hotwife/bull search (sigh).

I liked how it would show events and hot dates . you put the cursor over those items in a day box and they simply opened up for a quick scan. That is now out the window?
submitting a comment not working properly either ....

I liked how it would show events and hot dates . you put the cursor over those items in a day box and they simply opened up for a quick scan. That is now out the window?

Here's the response I got from SLS today:

Everything should be working. The matching criteria were updated to be more accurate. Due to that and that you are a single male, you will see far fewer hot dates. Customer Service - Wayne
(SLS) 10/15/2019 12:25pm

How bout letting us decide who we want to see. Put it back the way it was. It was fine that way. One person shouldn’t be deciding what changes should be made. Want to try something new how bout taking a vote from the paying members.

Event calendar was our primary interest in this site. Without it the site is unusable for our needs. Time to move on

The problem is that complaining will achieve nothing although it's the only option other than leaving the site. The people dictating the changes, and those employed by them, are far too arrogant to admit something is wrong. They would rather just badly explain how it's literally everyone else that "simply doesn't get it."

When you're up against that level of arrogance and cluelessness, it's a losing battle. I know full well that I'm not the only successful web and app developer here. None of the reasoning or excuses from management are valid. App intergration certainly does not require the changes made with decent coding.