British Dating App Openly Ranks Users’ Attractiveness

Newsweek reports:

A U.K. dating app is approaching the matchmaking process in a whole new way, one that has the potential to abolish someone’s ego. The app, called Once, has updated its service to include a ranking of the app user’s attractiveness.

The number rating, which ranges from one to five seemingly based on a user’s physical appearance, is said to be a tool to help the user be realistic about who they could potentially match with. This may sound extreme, but it is a feature already used by numerous popular dating apps, just not publicly.

Dating apps have a tendency to score users based on their performance and appearance in order to better form app algorithms. The surprising decision to make the numbers public is just a move that Once sees as gifted information for the user’s guidance.

According to the app’s founder, if you know you’re a 2, you’re better off knowing that you’re likely wasting your time by hitting on a 5. Stand by for the incels to react.