by brosner on 4/9/18, 7:59 PM
About seven years ago I met my wife on OkCupid. The only reason why I messaged her back (after had messaging with her several months earlier) was because of the frontend visitor feature. She had visited my profile randomly again. Turns out she said she accidentally clicked on to my profile intended to see someone else.
I haven't used OkC since then, but I thought I'd share that in the context of this blog post ;-)
by odammit on 4/9/18, 6:57 PM
I dated on okc for a few years. I hate driving (LA) and so I frequently filtered my matches to 5 miles (if I recall that was the smallest radius).
5 miles in LA can be a long drive. So I wrote a chrome plugin to add additional drop down options of 0.1, 0.5 and 1 mile. I was surprised to see it work.
It was awesome.
There is also a hack to get the infamous “top X% of hottest people” feature unlocked... :)
by Madmallard on 4/10/18, 11:28 PM
Okcupid has been going downhill for years. Four years ago you could get matches on there even if you were average looking that werent way below your league and actually interact with a ton of people. in 2018 it is mostly bots and you wont get meaningful interaction really anymore. The tinder looks bias is also literally enforced at this point (only see messages from profiles you look at, only messaging matches). They have totally lost their way.
by i386 on 4/9/18, 8:43 PM
"stalk_time" makes me feel very uncomfortable. Names matter.
by CrowderSoup on 4/9/18, 6:21 PM
The thing that impresses me most is how quickly OkCupid removed public access to that API.
by jakobegger on 4/9/18, 6:25 PM
Where does the „body type“ data come from? Do they ask you for your weight when you sign up?
by waisbrot on 4/9/18, 7:32 PM
> However, they gave no answer for why unnecessary data was being provided.
I mean, it was obviously a bug, right? I imagine the only "explanation" would involve detailing the origin and nature of the bug which would be unwise until they've gone through all their other endpoints to ensure that there's not another instance of this same information leaking.
by nitwit005 on 4/9/18, 6:16 PM
Obviously a hidden feature of OkCupid for matching security researchers.
by Implicated on 4/9/18, 6:36 PM
How does this even happen?
How can the developers behind an endpoint like this not confirm/test that it requires permissions/authentication to consume? (I mean, look at all that data...)
Amateurs I can understand - but OKCupid has been around long enough they shouldn't be employing people of that nature.
Is there no code review process?
This is just nuts.
by nukeop on 4/9/18, 6:16 PM
I never get it why people who discover secrets like these make extra sure nobody else can ever enjoy them again. Just use the undocumented feature and don't make a big thing out of it.
This way it's ruined for everybody, and they get nothing in return, except for some HN points on their blog post.