Enter Logan Ury, director of relationship science at Hinge, the millennial dating app with the tagline, “designed to be deleted”. I gave her a call to find out more about the workings of the Hinge algorithm, which is claimed to be better geared towards helping users find a long-term partner than other apps on the market.
We spoke about why your ex’s profile seems to appear every time you open the app, how the “most compatible” is calculated and whether video dates can ever be not awkward.