Nebojsa L.

Despite claiming all time this service is free, if you register with email, at the end, when you want to print your CV, they require you to pay.

I am very sad that I have to lower my rating from 5-star to 3-star. Edit: And now to 2 stars. Every change in recent few years made it worse and worse. Also, every change of interface created tons of glitches. First the site stopped showing who visited you. It's o. K, because it made messaging and likes more important. Than they removed the possibility to see when someone was online. So you can be stuck in messaging someone, who wasn't there for years. Then they opted out messaging, unless you match with someone. It would be o. K, if girls were clever enough, to understand the principle of Liking and Matching. 90% of profiles now claim "Message me, I don't see likes". Recently they introduced some form of instant chat client. Which is so buggy, it's awful to use. Especially on mobile version. Speaking of mobile... I never could use mobile app, because it was not available for my region. And later because my device is not compatible. The most recent change is they limited number of Likes per day. It would be o. K, if it also wasn't so glitchy. Twice already my limit time expired, but magically it instantly renewed for another 24h on itself. The latest is that in Browse users you don't see those "who you liked" anymore. Are you people doing it deliberately, to destroy the site?

I must say I was free user all the time. And therefore it is still better than most other sites

Well, since I've tried so many dating sites, I can't really say that Badoo is the worst. There are so many awful sites, the competition is huge. It was cool using Badoo for some time, despite all the limitations you have, being a non-paying user. TBH, I never met anyone on Badoo, but I did have some chances.

There are actually few downsides on a technical issue, why you shouldn't use Badoo:

1. The most prominent issue is Search / browse feature. It is the worst of all sites. You can only filter by gender, age and location. Not by interests, language spoken, sexuality, looks, features... You can pick by Online status. But it is so poorly developed (on purpose, of course) that you can choose only between online users and all users. Which brings out tons and tons of profiles, who weren't active for 5 years or more. And the only info you see is that they haven't been online 7 + days.

2. They prompt you to rate them almost every time you log in. And if you rate them bad - explanation is mandatory.

3. Block user option only prevents them from writing a message. They can still visit your profile, see all details, spy on you.

4. Speaking of spying, you can track every user that has enabled Location services on his phone or browser to a 500 meters circle. Or even more precise. Is this even legal?

My agony began in the last few months. All of the sudden, they started offering me to promote my photo for free, meaning my photo will appear in their sorta "Hall of fame" for couple of hours. I accepted, thinking it can't do any harm. And later they asked me to pay for same service. Since I didn't want to, it seems I made them angry. The visits to my profile stopped, no Likes from girls. And every message I've sent ended only being "delivered", but never "read". Just to make things clear, I'm very picky to whom I send messages, so I'm not some sort of spammer. And at one point, I even lost the possibility to send messages to anyone. There's no Chat icon for me on any profile. First I need to Like that person. And after I do, they say I can't send message, because we didn't match yet. Unless I pay for credits, of course.

After a while, it started being frustrating. So out of curiosity I've created a fake girl profile, to check what's going on. And guess what!? My profile is nowhere to be seen. It doesn't appear in People nearby, I don't show as a visitor at all. My Like to that girl is also invisible. I can't send her a message. It's like I don't exist at all on Badoo. And that girl profile receives tons of visits, Likes and messages from other users.

Well, Badoo... Unlike many of people on Sitejabber, I'm not asking you to find me a girl, to arrange a date. I'm only asking for little decency. One star is what you get.

Edit: Badoo representative asked me in a message to provide my login credentials, so they can "solve the issue". And they took advantage to block my legit profile, because I publicly admitted I created a fake profile, with explanation why I did it. So much of a decency I asked for. SImpy don't use Badoo