I don’t mean the 8000 miles away but “exploring” group - that’s a whole other annoying thing but we’ve got threads on that already, or people with vpn’s or whatever.

I mean people who are 100 - 200 miles away - because I can’t get past roughly 38 miles before Feeld won’t show me any more. I’m in a rural place, but that takes me to the edge of the two nearest cities (which is also annoying - me being able to see you is a postcode lottery).

My (F51) filters are pretty wide, anyone except MF couples, age range 25 yrs wide, no distance filter (because - see this post - what’s the point), no desires filters because they’re useless. I’m down as pansexual so that should include everyone except straight women and gay men. So I don’t believe it’s because I’ve run out of people, it just stops at that distance.

With the best will in the world, clearing my feed so more people can be seen takes a really long time. I think about my likes really carefully, so I’ll like a few who make my heart flutter, X the ones who I can see wouldn’t be a good fit and are paralysed into inaction about the ones in the middle. I mean the “just seeing what this is about people” that you just can’t make a judgement on, I could X them but then I get terrible FOMO at the idea that they might update their profile to say something interesting. Anyway I do my best, and sometimes I filter out men, because they’re the majority and I want to see other types of people too, but even if I exclude women as well that still only takes my range to about 45 miles. I’ve never managed it get it much further even if I’m really ruthless because it’s made not so easy to swipe quickly like that (which actually I don’t think is a bad thing), so it would be very RSI inducing to clear them all.

So how come people can see me and like me from so much further away (without me travelling) ? London is 120 miles and I often get people liking me from there, and further, but I have never been able get anywhere near London in my search. Glastonbury is 20 miles from me, in between, so last weekend that was my limit! Yet still they were able to!

(London is the nearest city to me you can explore by the way, so that’s not the explanation either, that people explore nearby - I know that affects lots of people on here)

I have 4 explanations:

1)They are X-ing 3 counties’ worth of people to see me - unlikely, I’d like to say I have a good profile but I’m not that special and also my age is a negative factor (with Feelds user base being mostly younger people) and they must have a lot of time on their hands

2) They are indiscriminately liking 3 counties’ worth of people, including me. I sincerely hope this isn’t the answer but unfortunately it is possible

3) There is such a low number of women on Feeld vs men that they can see much further with less people to look through. We do know that there’s a disparity as with all sites yes but this seems extreme. Very unscientific and rough maths but if I can see 40 miles and they can see 160 that means it’s 20% women to 80% men. That’s awful - for both sides!

4) I’m missing something! (a super-special- emperor-level subscription with extra features - /s, no need to correct me). Or there’s something wrong with mine (more likely)

(Oh,and there’s nothing unusual on my profile I don’t think, that could mean a specific search would find me from a long way away. I have ticked being dominant, but the profiles of the people liking me don’t suggest this is a thing, and I’m sure that’s not that unusual anyway)

TLDR - my question: I’d love to know how many people you can see, after a refresh and without taking any liking / X-ing action, and how far away in miles that takes you?