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I personally and formally invite you to join. Im sure your original invite got lost in the mail.

Fwiw the invites were really just to manage scale. We weren’t ready yet and demand was high. We weren’t trying to exclude people

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A reservation queue would have worked just as well. (first in first served) The invite system sets up existing hierarchy of insiders and outsiders from the get-go, favoring the already popular, and creating a wall for new (single) users perhaps not in the hot geolocations where invites get handed out in bulk. It actually excludes people who are already struggling to socialize, and rewards those who have all the 'right connections'.

We did both. I don’t know why the invite didn’t reach their email

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