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Dating Apps Are Dead. Here’s Where Singles Are Meeting in 2026.

Burned-out daters are turning to hobby-based events where meeting someone is possible, but not the entire point.

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Dating apps have been on the receiving end of a lot of justified criticism lately. The complaints are all the same—failure to connect, disappointment, the general soul-erosion of human attraction. People are logging off, and they’re going somewhere. More specifically, they’re going to play mahjong.

According to a July 2025 Forbes Health survey, nearly four in five app users say they feel burned out from swiping. Eventbrite looked at where those people are turning instead, pulling U.S. platform data from the first half of 2026 and comparing it to the same window in 2025. The........

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