Pros of MeetOutside.com
Free: Maybe all the problem I’ll mention are a result of this website being a completely, 100% free to use website. With no paid staff, just the goodwill of whoever made the initial website and whoever manages it now, to keep it running, maybe this is simply the result of a well-meaning individual.
Cons of MeetOutside.com
User Numbers Are Miniscule: for the entirety of New York city, there are 787 users. Their biggest user base in London is as high as 829 users. You’re more likely to find more fans of a single Swedish death metal band in New York City. Not saying that Swedish death metal is bad, just niche in America, and those kinds of numbers for a dating website are abysmal.
Contains Ads for Nearly Identify Site: Same aesthetic, similar if not the same font family, image presentation, button styles, and so on. Several times during navigation, the interface can send you to a completely different website. With the frequency it happens and how well they camouflage with the website itself, it might be better take a risk and just join the new one.
A Sadist’s Dream of Menus: Menus overlap each other, making it extremely hard to close out of any menu as one may block the other and keep the user from having access to the “close” button. Additionally, you can’t just click away from a drop down menu to make it disappear. You have to press the “close” button. Even a veteran of dial up internet would have little patience for this kind of web design.
Going to the Home Page Logs You Out: Whether this is meant to be a feature or is in actuality a bug, attempting to return to the home page takes you to the pre-registration home page and requires you to log back in as a result.
Conclusion on MeetOutside.com
If you’ve come to the end of this article wondering what the verdict is, then it hasn’t properly explained the painful experience of attempting to navigate and Meet Outside. The graphics are of such poor quality that it’s easy to mistake ads for buttons and functions of the website, which will then direct you to another website. There’s a sneaking suspicion that the website you’ve been redirected to will either be a purely hookup dating site or perhaps even a virus in disguise, but it will still be more usable than Meet Outside for all intents and purposes. Not to keep beating a dead horse, but the actual meat of the website once you’ve registered and logged in looks like a time capsule for early 90’s dating websites. There’s a good possibility that it is one.
