Positive Singles Review September 2020

Although the app is not quite popular on both Android and iOS stores, the reviews are glimmering. Design-wise, the app stays loyal to the theme set by the website. The functions are simple and easy to navigate. Positive Singles also added a feature that allows you to choose a more discrete app icon; that way, it's less recognisable if ever someone happens to see or use your smartphone.

The more vital features are still in the app, optimised for a mobile experience. However, if you want to look up health resources, talk with a live counsellor, find STD care locations, you're going to have to go to the website.

"I wasted so much of my time using the more popular dating sites and navigating my way around like I was on a minefield. No matter how open-minded people claim to be, once I admit I have herpes, they ghost me. It's not just annoying. It's discouraging and has always made me feel isolated. I thank the heavens I found this site because I finally have somewhere I belong. For the first time in a while, I've gone on meaningful dates with people who know the whole truth about me because they're the same." - Male Technician (31)

Design and Usability

The website is organised, aesthetically pleasing, and user-friendly. Most of the functions are immediately available on your homepage so you can easily find anything. The blogs and forums can be intimidating at first, but within minutes of familiarizing yourself, you can quickly navigate your way around. One issue we have is that the site text could be too small for desktop users. 

A "first date idea" field is available in your profile to be filled out to let users gain insight into your personality. Basically, you would just state what your ideal or unique first date would be. PositiveSingles provides a page, which looks similar to the forum page, where everybody's dating idea is compiled. You can browse through these ideas, find one that you like, click on that user, and maybe initiate a conversation. It's a good way of facilitating contact based on personality rather than physical appearance.

In Let's meet, you are shown people's profiles and you can swipe left or right on them. Swiping left means you don't like them while swiping right means you do. If you and a user like each other, it's a mutual match. This functions as a sort of game because after you've swiped through 8 profiles, you will see the phrase "You have finished one round." You can then either view who you've matched with or continue playing Let's meet. This game has unlimited rounds.