On HumanamuH I'm using "yyyy-mm-dd" or "mm-dd hh-mm" wherever several dates are displayed in a column (e.g. chat messages or notifications). I think it's easier to see where the day or month changed and it's sorted intuitively. But...
Several people who registered from the US stumbled over the form that lets you enter your birthday in "dd-mm-yyyy" format. Even though the format is explained right behind the form field. They were probably just as irritated as the majority of the world is by "mm-dd-yyyy". Not sure if using "yyyy-mm-dd" for birthdays works better internationally.
Maybe changing the format depending on the IP address would reduce confusion. Of course, users could also have an option to localize their date formats, but I assume most wouldn't want to bother.
By the way, the article contains Wikipedia's map of "Date format by country" which answers your question why nobody is using the ISO format for dates (some do):
Thanks for the clarification. HumanamuH isn't fixed to either non-private or professional contacts. Its purpose is to meet people who you find worthwhile to meet. Whether you decide to go on vacation with them or do business is up to you.
Stating that one isn't looking is meant to allow people to discourage dating requests if they aren't interested. Some people would certainly love to tell all their co-workers that they weren't looking for a partnership upfront. :-)
With the registration process I wanted to make sure to have a valid email address of every user. Otherwise people might start using the site, forget their passwords and then ask me to give them access to their accounts in order to not lose their established contacts.
I hope that knowing what people intend to talk about and intend to do makes meeting people online a better experience. Especially in combination with predictions.
After reading online profiles, I often feel that I'm still missing something to decide whether I want to meet that person. Knowing about favorite movies or brands or whether someone is bad at describing himself, doesn't tell me much.
I'm open for suggestions on how to improve the wording. Quite tricky that languages are so overladen with all sorts of meanings. Especially challenging if it's not one's first language.
Actually, there isn't a gender requirement. It's optional.
I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?
At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.
I am not doing any machine learning (yet). If the site takes off a bit and generates some data, I expect optimizing the prediction algorithm will become a top priority. Accurately predicting human relationships sounds incredibly hard.
Currently, it's looking how similar your ratings are to the ratings of others. Similar people will influence your predictions more strongly.
The declared goals or intentions are currently not affecting predictions. And I'm doubtful if they should. Any opinion on this?
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HumanamuH is not meant to be a dating site in particular. But I assume wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.
The possibility to state one's orientation and whether one is looking for a partner is there for at least two reasons.
If you don't want to date, you can make that clear upfront. Hopefully this will reduce unwanted requests.
If you want to date, it's easier for everyone involved if the orientation is known beforehand.
Edit: Not sure if my comment still fits as the parent has been edited. I'll try to update it later on.
It's not intended to be a dating site in particular. But I assume that wherever people meet, some of them will want to date. I like the idea of HumanamuH bringing love to the world, so I'm fine with it.
By providing some fields like orientation and whether someone is looking for a partner, I hope to give people who don't want to date a way to make that clear upfront. And those who want to date a way to make it clear what they are looking for.
If, for example, someone is in a partnership and not interested in dating, it's possible to add this info to his or her user profile. Hopefully this will minimize dating requests for them.
I'll think about suggestions for the "intentions" field. However, I don't want to suggest something that will end up in most profiles. Priming is powerful.
I expected someone would bring up Facebook integration. :-)
As someone who doesn't use Facebook and who has some issues with it, I haven't even considered integrating it and I'm not sure how much the profile data would match. I don't intend HumanamuH to become an advertising column, so much for sure.
Can you suggest anything besides photos that would fit the current HumanamuH profile?
I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public.
Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question.
I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to have a look without sharing your email address.