article and paper: Dating Apps Are Basically Useless For Finding Dates, Says Sad New Study

http://www.maxim.com/news/dating-apps-are-pointless-study-2016-7

Research Confirms Dating Apps Are a Sad Game
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/research-confirms-dating-apps-tinder-grindr-happn-bumble-are-a-sad-game

PAPER: What Happens After You Both Swipe Right: A Statistical Description of Mobile Dating Communications
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1607/1607.03320.pdf

(It seems research was done in Badoo database)

Please see also:

PAPER A First Look at User Activity on Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/paper-first-look-at-user-activity-on.html
 
Security issues in mobile dating applications: attacks, malware and phishing. (via singleboersen-vergleich)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/security-issues-in-mobile-dating.html

Why Dating On Facebook Is Better Than Dating On Tinder?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/why-dating-on-facebook-is-better-than.html

The hackers hacked? Badoo (2 June 2016)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/the-hackers-hacked-badoo-2-june-2016.html

 
Social dating is vaporware.
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient.  It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. 
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"