In the clutch, with a few hours to go before the 14th (Eastern time), all matches have been finalized and sent out by /u/MambaMatchmaker. Thanks to everyone who offered to volunteer! I actually ended up doing it all myself because the current method we use for matchmaking is very efficient.

No match? If you did not receive a message saying you were matched, we're sorry, but this can occur in the algorithm - for example, if you're a man, you may have simply went unranked, whereas if you're a woman, other people may have ranked all your preferred men at higher positions (and whomever you ranked at #1 seemed more compatible with someone else who ranked him at #1).

Filing Complaints: If your match doesn't respond to your initial message after a week, please message me about it. If you're talking to them and they start to exhibit criminal behavior, say threatening messages, please absolutely message me. However, I likely won't police other actions, such as ghosting. We help connect people, but we can't do the actual relationship-building. But I try to be VERY reasonable and grant exceptions, so for example, if you accidentally got matched with your ex, let me know and I'll lift the obligation to respond/send them a message!

Next Matchmaker Form: The next matchmaker form will be at some point in the future. It will likely follow the same process of having two phases; however, there may be two major differences:

1. I may include an option to post a photo of yourself. We had this poll last week, and the trend is that the majority want it and will make use of it, but there's a strong minority voice against it. The arguments against photos are good, but at the same time, I don't want to simply ignore a feature many people want. At the end of the day, we're simply trying to grow our userbase and get more people to use the form, which is beneficial to all users since the strength of a dating app lies, in large part, in the size of its network. Adding a photo option basically creates a tradeoff as we gain people who are drawn by knowing the immediate looks of the person they're messaging, but lose people who place a high value on anonymity and/or feel pressured to compete by posting photos of themselves. So I'm thinking of alternating: one iteration, the form may include a photo option, then the next one or two iterations may be photo-less, then the following iteration may have photos again. If you have any comments/suggestions on this, please share them.

2. I may do two-sided rankings, i.e. Phase 1 will have both sexes fill out the form, then Phase 2 will have both sexes ranking the other side, then I'll use the rankings to make matches. The only issue is that the algorithm I'm planning to use for this type of matching can be very tedious to do by hand, and so will probably necessitate coding. I should be able to code this up myself (I think we'd separate the responses into two lists (by sex) of dictionaries, where the key is ID number and the value is a list of their personal rankings. We'd initialize an empty list of tuples, indicating matches. Then we'd follow the algorithm on the Wikipedia article to create tuples of stable matches.). If anyone has any suggestions on this front, please let me know!

Happy Valentine's Day. Live holy lives. God bless you!