Pathetic Waste of Time and Money (for me)
So much is wrong with this site and service, much of it covered in other posts, but my experience over the last 6 months is coming to a close and I feel I can be objectively critical. In 6 months I actually made contact with, and met, 2 people who apparently matched my criteria. The rest of the time was continually 'offered' completely unsuitable potential matches. One problem is that the customer facing web pages are not consistent, not logcal, not intuitive: there's no obvious hierarchy. I got notified of new 'likes' that did not transfeer to the likes tab. The tab marked 'Discover' sometimes had potential matches that had not been notified in other ways. If you are over 50 you may, or may not, have slick IT skills - I used to work with IT (including development) and I've found it frustrating, confused and confusing. Recently I've had trouble logging on (one page says Sign In and another Log In) being repeatedly challenged to run the gauntlet of 'Captcha' images that are sometyimes so blurred that it has been impossible to see 'buses', 'motorbikes', bicycles, fire hydrants or whatever. Utterly useless. I continually refreshed and refined my profile, in an attempt to be as minimally prescriptive as possible, but I still have been getting ludicrously irrelevant matches; as for photos of people that are clearly a LOT younger than their declared age (if indeed they are who they claim to be at all, and not scamsters) - what can I say? Another problem, for me, is that the distance from me function seems to be calculated on a "straight line" basis, resulting in unrealistic travel. One of the people I actually met is almost 140 miles away by road, but the system said 80. I think if you live in a major conurbation, with good transport links this would be less of an issue, with more potential matches relatively nearby, but for people who live in rural areas this is a real issue. I give OurTime 2 stars, but only because I did actually meet 2 people - otherwise I would be looking for a Minus Stars option.
Date of experience: May 07, 2024