Hey, just wanted to post an update about what's going on regarding having people test out creating accounts.

On February 14th we we were on track to have registration finished and ready for account creation by February 25th with the only thing needing some work is making sure your account has the right Geo location for you to find others near you.

On February 24th we posted a survey to this subreddit and our newsletter subscribers (over 100 people responded!) asking our users their preferred login methods.

At this point in time we only had create and log in using your phone number and verification code and before launch we wanted to triple check how our user base has preferred to create accounts and log in. After a decent sample size it looks like most prefer logging in via either Email and password, or a Social login. With less than 8% wanting to login via phone number.

At that point we decided to rework our login to add email and password as well as social login in addition to still needing to polish geo location.

We first started working on perfecting Geo location when we came to the realization that the database provider we were using (Firebase) was not meant for this type of complex filtering and after having spent almost a week bashing our heads in the wall trying to get it to work we decided to switch database providers.

Once we verified we were able perform the type of filtering we wanted to such as location, age, answers to questions, etc, we realized that this new database provider does not have the built in social logins that Firebase had.

We've now been in contact with our new database provider and I have actually been making updates to their codebase to support the type of social login that users expect.

Timeline to be able to create accounts is as follows:

1. Finish migrating the code base to use our new database provider.
2. Add login with email and password.
3. New database provider accepts our code changes to add social logins.
4. Update code base to add social login.
5. Send out link to alpha testers.

We felt weird keeping people in the dark about our progress and wanted to post a quick update as to where we are. We don't expect this to take longer than a couple of weeks and we'll make another post if anything new happens.

Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any questions!