About seven years ago I met my wife on OkCupid. The only reason why I messaged her back (after had messaging with her several months earlier) was because of the frontend visitor feature. She had visited my profile randomly again. Turns out she said she accidentally clicked on to my profile intended to see someone else.

I haven't used OkC since then, but I thought I'd share that in the context of this blog post ;-)

One day when you have kids, you can tell them "you are the result of a mistaken web click"

If, not when. Children are optional.

Pet peeve of mine, but too many people don't even think about it and just procreate because it's part of the Standard Life Script™.

> but too many people don't even think about it and just procreate because it's part of the Standard Life Script

As is their right, and not to mention biological imperative. Ironically, people not wanting kids, will be marginalized in the gene pool (assuming the trait is genetic). But yeah, overpopulation, unsustainable food needs, etc, etc. To paraphrase Dr. House, M.D. - "There are only two things people get stupid for - Money and Sex" :P

Well, the entire application is built with the purpose of guiding users into this choice. It's at the point where the longer you've run the application without procreating, the stronger the manipulation becomes.

Even people running the application in Gay Mode or loading other modules using the Gender Extension APIs run into this problem.

"When" can be conditional too :)

For the record, we have a one and half year old son :D

I have a similar story. My current girlfriend was living in another city about three hours away, I never would have seen her profile in my possible "matches" because I wasn't looking in that city. She did a search query for an author we both like, and my profile came up. If she didn't "visit" my profile and pique my interest I likely never would've met her! I'm sad to think that with the changes OKC have made recently (haven't used it since I met my GF obviously) people will have less luck finding people. They want to turn it into a Tinder clone.

That's pretty awesome!

The site has changed quite a bit then. Now you would of never been able to message her unless she "liked" you.

A new version of Perseus will be launching in two months. I have been working on it with my team at Eldarion. It will open sourced as well.

Good catch. This was overlooked. I've removed that bit and modified the upgrade section with the correct information.