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MetroDate.com

MetroDate Review – A Portland Focused Dating Site

MetroDate is a Portland, Oregon, focused dating website that offers a free service for people trying to meet each other. While you’re not required to live in Portland, OR, to participate, that is the website’s target audience. Regardless of who it’s for, you can still ask how does MetroDate work overall?

Pros of MetroDate.com

City Guide: Whether you’re new to Portland or grew up there but never really explored, MetroDate has you covered with suggestions for the Portland nightlife.

Chat Rooms: Not an option often found on dating websites, MetroDate offers open chat rooms to organically connect with people. It can take the pressure off of coming up with the be ice breaker and introduce you naturally to others, but joining into whatever conversation is happening and providing your opinions or take on the topic.

Cons of MetroDate.com

Not Mobile Optimized: The website isn’t responsive at all, meaning it’s not going to be the best website to use on your smartphone. Sometimes this is the cost of using a free to use website, having to deal with poor web design. This is meant to be a “sit at your computer” kind of dating website. It’s almost retro in that sense, reminiscent of AOL instant messenger chats from the 90’s and early 2000’s. If you’re a fan of (likely) unintentional throwbacks, this might not be such a bad thing for you.

Registratoon Process

MetroDate requires a length registration process, beginning with the usual username, password, email and location to create your member login. After you register, you’ll be instantly sent to fill out your profile. If you’re the type of person that has trouble coming up with a username, the website is helpful in that it automatically suggests a randomly generated username. The downside to this is the loss of creative usernames that might show a spark of personality before you even get to their profiles, and by extension, a lot of the users feel like they could potentially be bots or cat fishers with the generic usernames and strings of numbers at the ends of them.

Because there is no app, there is no need for a unique mobile login system. In fact, you may want to stick to using your desktop for this site.

Creation of a Profile

To register your member login, you’ll enter your gender, sexual orientation, birthdate, education, height, smoking status, child status, race, religion, body type, relationship status, hair color, eye color and occupation. And that’s only the first page for your dating profile.

The next one, the one it sends you to when it says you’re going to “Home” is actually another form to fill out. Not that being required to fill out your profile right off the bat is a bad thing for a dating website to ask of you, but the second page’s “continue” doesn’t take you to the next step of filling out the profile, it just refreshes the page. The “go to home” link is small and would be easily mistaken by anyone as an optional link.

This third page of your dating profile asks for your preferences of a partner, including but not limited to details like: Age range, Education, Height range, Smoking status, Child status, Races you’d like to date, Religions you’d like to date, Body types you’d like to date.

While there must have been a demand for these options, height ranges sound rather shallow and by including them in your search criteria, not including the information looks suspect.

The next page of setting up your profile are these optional (and hidden) text boxes that starts with an “about me” section. The links below aren’t actually links but hide more text boxes for their respective questions and extra details, but not knowing this, they can be easily confused as suggested topics to talk about in the aforementioned text box. This seems to serve as a hidden profile question system.

Finally, you’re given the option to upload or email a photo. Emailing your photos seems like a unique though odd feature considering if you’re able to upload a photo to your email, it follows you should be able to upload your photo directly to the website.

Pricing Plans

There is no basic plan or premium plan service so all users are able to enjoy the same free features as equals. There’s mention of the fact your account is free on some pages, which might otherwise indicate that there is at least some kind of basic plan, but no such option to pay for a premium service could be found. All the free account features you see are the ones you get.

How to Search on MetroDate

When searching for a potential match, you’ll head over to the “People” link in the menu. There, you’ll select from a few options to search profiles:

Quick Search Results

Advanced Search Results

Member Lookup

How to Cancel Your MetroDate Account

If needed, how to cancel your MetroDate subscription? To delete your MetroDate account, hover over the “Home” link in the main menu and select “Account Info.” From there, you’ll scroll to the bottom and find “Click to cancel your free account” in the “Other Account Preferences” section. It will ask you why you wanted to cancel your account, and choosing one of the options of why you’re leaving is required.

Clicking one of these options may prompt the website to convince you to stay, such as choosing the “no one has contacted me” which will give you tips on how to be more approachable or to tell you to be a bit more forward.

If you aren’t convinced or don’t want to be convinced, simply go down and click the button “cancel account.”

Conclusion on MetroDate.com

For people in the Portland, Oregon, metro area, this may be a possible alternative to using other dating websites and apps like OKCupid or Tinder, the latter of which having more of a hookup culture to it. This is also a good website to start with if you’re new to the city and new to online dating as it helps you navigate the city and offers plenty of advice, safety tips and tricks, and articles on finding a partner online.