New PlentyOfFish.com Upgrades
- Wednesday, June 17 2009 @ 01:04 pm
- Contributed by: Editor
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With the downtime experience last week (see Story), PlentyOfFish.com decided it was a good time to go ahead and add 3 new features to the dating site.
The photo uploader for the profile got an over haul and allows for real-time editing. You can resize, crop and rotate your images after you upload them. This is only available for Flash enabled internet browsers.
Profile themes was introduced as well. For either 5000 activity points or by purchasing a serious membership you can activate and select from a number of themes (background images) to be displayed when your profile is viewed. Once activated, the themes will always be available to you and you can change them anytime.
Finally, a Date Night feature was added. Every week you can add yourself to the date night list which signals you are free this coming Friday and are looking for a date. After every Friday the list gets cleared and is restarted. Members who have paid to receive a Serious Member Badge will be first on the list. This is a good idea, but needs expanding on. There should be 7 lists, one for each day in a week. This way members can specify when they want to go out as Friday may no be possible for everyone.
As we predicted, the Serious Member Badge is becoming more about the additional features you receive when purchased than an indication that you are someone who is seriously looking to find a relationship. It is also now a way to skirt trying to save up activity points for features. In this way PlentyOfFish.com is becoming more like a paid dating site than ever before. That's not to say this is necessarily a bad thing. Free members still have full communication abilities and PlentyOfFish.com will have additional funds in which they can invest more on new and better dating features for members who pay.
For more on this popular dating site, read our PlentyOfFish.com review.
The photo uploader for the profile got an over haul and allows for real-time editing. You can resize, crop and rotate your images after you upload them. This is only available for Flash enabled internet browsers.
Profile themes was introduced as well. For either 5000 activity points or by purchasing a serious membership you can activate and select from a number of themes (background images) to be displayed when your profile is viewed. Once activated, the themes will always be available to you and you can change them anytime.
Finally, a Date Night feature was added. Every week you can add yourself to the date night list which signals you are free this coming Friday and are looking for a date. After every Friday the list gets cleared and is restarted. Members who have paid to receive a Serious Member Badge will be first on the list. This is a good idea, but needs expanding on. There should be 7 lists, one for each day in a week. This way members can specify when they want to go out as Friday may no be possible for everyone.
As we predicted, the Serious Member Badge is becoming more about the additional features you receive when purchased than an indication that you are someone who is seriously looking to find a relationship. It is also now a way to skirt trying to save up activity points for features. In this way PlentyOfFish.com is becoming more like a paid dating site than ever before. That's not to say this is necessarily a bad thing. Free members still have full communication abilities and PlentyOfFish.com will have additional funds in which they can invest more on new and better dating features for members who pay.
For more on this popular dating site, read our PlentyOfFish.com review.
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