There may be plenty of fish within the dating pool, but if you tried the POF.com login this morning, you may have needed to hold your breath. The pof.com login happened to be down this morning meaning plentyoffish went without finding their next date. No doubt a couple of Plenty of Fish users chose to get pay day loans to pay for a site like rival Match.com – which left some plentyoffish users wondering if there was a lot more to this story.
Login for pof.com goes down
The POF.com login on Plenty of Fish appeared to be down on May 5, 2010 for all plentyoffish users. Either the login for POF.com would not respond or not even appear. Plenty of Fish has not yet informed any person when the POF.com login could be back up. If you are a plentyoffish user, you may have to wait a couple of hours before your next match can be made.
Plenty of Fish vs. Match.com
Recently, the biggest Plenty of Fish news isn’t the technical issues. It has been a Plentyoffish vs. Match.com showdown. Plenty of Fish claims that they help set up over 18 million dates and 20,000 individuals sign up each day. Match.com sent Plentyoffish a letter on April 23, telling them that they either need to cease and desist or provide their proprietary Plentyoffish site data to Match.com. Plenty of Fish responded to the Match.com letter with plenty of vitriol, questioning the match.com claim of 12 marriages per day for their paid service. Either way, the showdown between dating online websites is giving plenty of dedicated programmers a fun matchmaking challenge.
Match.com’s failed Plentyoffish clone
Match.com, in 2009, launched a site clone to plentyoffish called DownToEarth.com. Because Down to Earth didn’t do well, especially against users that already had a POF.com login, the site was shut down. There are rumors that Match.com might want to partner or buy out plentyoffish. If this is the case, Match.com is certainly choosing a unique way to show its affection – with cease and desist orders. Perhaps Match.com needs its own POF.com login to see how it is done.
Resources
dedicated programmers
http://www.securenext.com/company.php
Plenty of Fish blog
http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com
PlentyofFish twitter
http://twitter.com/plentyoffish
