From the monthly archives: March 2010
Some people have questioned why we don’t let them choose the gender of their conversation partner. For now, here’s some data that explains why. When we were initially considering this, the quickest way for us to test what happens when you introduce gender into conversation choice was to set up two Skype profiles: one male, [...]
Why did we do it this way? Why did we take a different approach from other services, showing no user profiles, pictures or other personal identifiers? While the site looks fun (if we do say so ourselves) it is kind of a reaction against the data overload common today. We did it this way because [...]
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