Hinge is back online following an hour-long outage that left singletons across the UK unable to access the app

  • According to Down Detector, the problems started at around midday
  • The outage affected users across the country
  • Of those who reported issues, 99 per cent said they were struggling with the app

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

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Hinge is back online following an hour-long outage that left singletons unable to access the app.

According to Down Detector, the problems started at around midday and affected users across the country. 

Of those who reported issues, 99 per cent said they were struggling with the app, while the remaining one per cent said they were having problems logging in. 

One user posted a screenshot of the error message in the app, which read: 'We'll be right back. Something went wrong, and we're working on fetching solutions. Check back soon!' 

Speaking to MailOnline, a spokesperson for Hinge confirmed that the outage was a result of 'routine maintenance', and that it only lasted for a 'short period of time'.

Hinge is back online following an hour-long outage that left singletons unable to access the app

Hinge is back online following an hour-long outage that left singletons unable to access the app 

According to Down Detector, the problems started at around midday, and affected users across the country

According to Down Detector, the problems started at around midday, and affected users across the country

One user posted a screenshot of the error message in the app, which reads: 'We'll be right back. Something went wrong, and we're working on fetching solutions. Check back soon!'

One user posted a screenshot of the error message in the app, which reads: 'We'll be right back. Something went wrong, and we're working on fetching solutions. Check back soon!'

Several frustrated users took to Twitter to discuss the outage. 

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One user wrote: 'Finalising plans for a date tonight so of course Hinge goes down.'

Another added: 'Hinge being down really ruined my morning routine.'

And one joked: 'I take full responsibility for Hinge being down. 

'I shouldn’t have posted that shirtless pic. Crashed the whole system.'

Hinge first launched back in 2012 and describes itself as the 'dating app designed to be deleted'. 

'Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. 

'We were born from a desire to fundamentally change how dating apps work in our culture today,' it explains. 

'We saw a world where many users were burnt out by the speed of most dating apps. They were spending hours on their phones and had little to show for it. 

'People were so busy matching that they weren’t actually connecting, in person, where it counts. 

'That’s why we built an app that’s designed to be deleted: purpose-built to get people off their phones and out on dates.' 

Several frustrated users took to Twitter to discuss the outage. One wrote: 'Hinge being down really ruined my morning routine'

Several frustrated users took to Twitter to discuss the outage. One wrote: 'Hinge being down really ruined my morning routine'

HOW DID ONLINE DATING BECOME SO POPULAR?

The first ever incarnation of a dating app can be traced back to 1995 when Match.com was first launched.

The website allowed single people to upload a profile, a picture and chat to people online.

The app was intended to allow people looking for long-term relationships to meet.

eHarmony was developed in 2000 and two years later Ashley Madison, a site dedicated to infidelity and cheating, was first launched.

A plethora of other dating sites with a unique target demographic were set up in the next 10-15 years including: OKCupid (2004), Plenty of Fish (2006), Grindr (2009) and Happn (2013).

In 2012, Tinder was launched and was the first 'swipe' based dating platform. 

After its initial launch it's usage snowballed and by March 2014 there were one billion matches a day, worldwide.

In 2014, co-founder of Tinder, Whitney Wolfe Herd launched Bumble, a dating app that empowered women by only allowing females to send the first message.

The popularity of mobile dating apps such as Tinder, Badoo and more recently Bumble is attributable to a growing amount of younger users with a busy schedule.

In the 1990s, there was a stigma attached to online dating as it was considered a last-ditch and desperate attempt to find love.

This belief has dissipated and now around one third of marriages are between couples who met online.

A survey from 2014 found that 84 per cent of dating app users were using online dating services to look for a romantic relationship.

Twenty-four per cent stated that that they used online dating apps explicitly for sexual encounters.

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