Nice to see that OKC made a beautiful connection

[ebontigress]

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/14/how-okcupid-led-an-organ-donor-to-find-the-teen-with-his-kidney/

and a bit sad about losing features I liked.

Archiving a snippet from one user's forum post:

Recently removed features, some of these from my journal post on removed features 2012-04, and go back a while:

• Journals
• Misc forum restrictions
• Profile join dates
• Personality badges
• Allow edits to profile by other users, editors are credited
• A-List photo album restrictions (now available to most users and no more ability to restrict to favorites or A-List users)
• General profile name search
• Can't email someone without going to their profile or leveraging an existing conversation
• Personality comparison graphs
• Profile notes
• "WTF Report"
• "Best matches by state" thing
• Ability to disable activity popup messages
• Homepage activity list filter
• Mutual low star rating notice (humorous)
• Quiver
• Profile Awards
• Games
• Search for new questions
• Winks
• Email flags - "Smiles" (the only email organizational feature that ever appeared here in my 6.5 years)
• "Let them know" when adding to favorites
• Subject line in emails
• Detailed IM blocking options for newer users
• Email filters
• Unicode characters in profiles

Newly added features

• Mobile app tweaks
• Draft emails
• Various A-List and paid features
• Additional options for offspring status in profile
• Expanded FAQ pages
• "I'm Looking For" has more bearing on site profile suggestions
• Profiles listed as gay/bi can hide profile from others listed as straight
• OkCupid events (never made it here, possibly only in NYC?)