Bumble Is Apparently Getting Into Speed Dating

Hey all you horny singles, are you prepared to start out pace courting once more? The widespread courting app Bumble is reportedly testing a pace courting characteristic in U.Okay. markets the place customers can go online to talk with strangers digitally earlier than matching with them and seeing their profiles.

Ask any twenty-something about their experiences enjoying the sphere they usually’ll all discuss how exhausting or annoying or irritating it’s up to now. While it’s exhausting to inform if that issue is an “adulthood” factor or a “2022″ thing, meeting people has gotten marginally easier with apps like Hinge, Tinder, and Bumble. The process is usually the same: You see someone you’re attracted to, shoot them a cheesy one-liner, you have some meaningless back-and-forth banter, until one of you musters up the courage to arrange a date. Bumble, however, appears to be bringing it back to basics with a new speed dating feature.

TechCrunch reports that the new feature consists of users logging onto the app on a designated night at a designated time to have brief, three-minute chats with other users. Once both parties like where things are going, only then will they be able to see each others’ photos and keep the conversation going while matched. Screenshots obtained by TechCrunch show that Speed Dating has been trialed on Thursdays at 7PM local time.

“At Bumble, we are always testing new and different ways for our community to connect,” a Bumble spokesperson informed Gizmodo. “Like all tests, we will collect feedback before deciding if we roll it out more widely.”

Earlier this yr, Tinder rolled out a Blind Date characteristic during which customers could be matched based mostly on a questionnaire and entered right into a timed chat. It didn’t precisely set the courting world on hearth however possibly Bumble could have extra luck.