Raya

If you prefer black or mixed race men. Not sure if an algorithm issue or marketing issue but there’s none. Don’t waste your time sis

Pretty limited selection & still shows you men

Very bad management

I tried this app and there is a low number of users in the London area. Most profiles seem to be up to 40 in majority and ratio women / men is not favourable for women.

I design and build apps so I tested this one. It seems the ‘like’ component doesn’t work ethically. It states you’re given a limit on ‘likes’ per day when the reality is you have a limit on people served to you. You could reject every person but only like one and still hit your limit of ‘likes’ so the naming and explanation on why there is a limit (to encourage you to talk with your connections) is incredibly misleading. This prompted me to also test what happens if you use the rewind button on the same person and whether your like limit could be reached simply repeating that with one person. It did. Which shows that Raya does not discern between who and how you have engaged with others historically. All it accounts for is the engagement of the app, not the individual. Without that, you lose the expected range of potential people to match with and will ultimately be served the same people - which you’ve already probably noticed, right? It’s also suspicious that you cannot set and then be served anyone who matches your desired criteria. You are simply given random people from a pool of age groups, gender, and location. How is that not a fundamental feature in 2024? These aren’t bugs. This is intentional design to minimise your chances of finding a meaningful connection. This app is gamified and costs you your time and money.

You get reported for taking screenshots but wouldn’t it make more sense to do like WhatsApp - where you actually don’t get to take screenshot? Now you get reported when you forget about being on this app but you also get a screenshot.. just bad app design if you actually care about not having people take screenshots!

Not inclusive of people with disabilities :(

I was happy to pay a little more for membership for something that claims to be a cut above. Unfortunately, despite signing up for a year at a tidy cost, that isn’t enough for the makers of this app, who seem desperate for even more money at almost every level of this app! “You’ve run out of likes (10-15 max it seems): pay us money to get more.” “Want to introduce to someone with a comment? Pay us more money.” “No more profiles until you talk to your matches. You are? Doesn’t matter, no more for you… unless you pay us more money.” Hope they update it in future to just leave you alone if you’ve paid for a membership but for now it just feels grubby and, ironically, makes the whole thing seem cheap!

This app is a rubbish. if you want an app like this join the League as they will accept you. I have been sitting for months and months on this app waiting to be accepted. I work for London firm in a good job and consider myself to be a good guy with hobbies, interests, morals and good values. Yet I am completely side lined. This app is not worth my time and I have distain for the elitist element especially when they except any old person (I.e. not the elite). Don’t waste your time and certainly don’t waste any money. This app will be out of business soon as they are a joke

Great idea in theory. The only issue is everyone is sooo far from you so it would be great if there were more filters