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- The OKCupid Guide *previously* hosted to my log in the OKCupid web site
to come back to Chapter 35 of DCMerlin’s Guide to OKCupid, click the link
If We continue using the website and see more problems and workarounds, i am prone to divide this into chapters when I did with my Guide To OKCupid
My week that is first on i have made numerous discoveries and discovered many frustrations:I regret to express that just about any development seems associated with some type of recognized weakness concerning the web web web site. I regret this as some will feel i am dissing the website. Personally I think that by pointing them down, I am able to assist users that are new adjust more quickly to your web web site, and possibly help web site operators to treat a few of these problems.
I am beginning the guide while my findings as being an user that is new nevertheless clear in my experience, as it can assist other brand new users get going.
Bookmarking Users of Interest: My advice to anybody not used to your website and enthusiastic about determining whom to make contact with, besides those individuals you currently understood and feel safe friending, is always to take advantage of your on line Browser’s Bookmark system, since Fetlife won’t have a “Favorite’s” option like OKCupid does. The buddy system on FetLife is really a shared one, rather like Facebook.
Messaging Fetlife users: Messaging is easy. Doing this in a smart way is much less as simple it really is on OKCupid. Your alternatives are to make use of your web web web browser’s bookmark system’s “Description” function, as described within the next paragraph, to juggle all of it in your thoughts, to make use of index cards, or even to shoot down a contact to every person while you encounter them. That final you might never ever by my very very first option.
Compiling records regarding a person you intend to content: In FireFox, after you have conserved a bookmark it is possible to get into Bookmarks, Organize Bookmarks and much more key in the bottom of a folder web page, you can view and edit the Description for every bookmark you will be making. This description area are a good idea to shape your likes up or dislikes about a certain individual, and it also will be in your passions to produce up your brain ahead of calling them. It shall truly be less 
embarrassing for you both. For this reason I prefer the records feature in OKCupid profiles and also this is the reason why I prefer this particular aspect of FireFox in FetLife. It’s also possible to access these records away from “organize” by right-clicking in the bookmark a finding “properties”.
Determining approximate profile age: many likely the most reason that is important might want to bookmark
Several users that are interesting one folder is really so as possible can compare their individual QUANTITY in comparison with your very own. As an example, we joined up with in might 2011. My Fetlife profile link is. Remember that quantity in the end, 927139, That implies that near to one million users have actually subscribed to FetLife. I do not yet discover how old Fetlife is, however it is safe to express that users who’ve been right right here the longest and they are nevertheless active are likely individuals to be used more really within their advice in regards to the site than state, a newbie just like me who makes the discovery that is odd. 🙂
Newness among OKCupid users is cause for caution usually. New users are usually skittish on OKC, and I also’d assume the exact same can probably be said for FetLife users too. Yours, it would probably be wise to be especially gentle in your first message if you see a user with a number anywhere close to.
Fetlife Areas needing improvement:FetLife has several flaws, some fairly severe, all of these can potentially be fixed as soon as I point them out to your website operators. For every single peeve I provide an user-based work-around where relevant.