Why am I not getting matches?
On Qulo a profile is hidden from everyone until four things are true: your email is verified, your location is set, you have written at least two questions, and you have at least one photo. A fifth rule then decides who sees you: a profile reaches someone only when at least two of its questions are in a language that person reads. That last rule is usually the answer — questions written only in your own language make you invisible to everyone else.
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Five things make a profile invisible
Before anything is ranked, a profile has to clear five gates. Miss any of the first four and you appear in nobody's Discover at all. Miss the fifth and you disappear for a particular set of people — which is why it is so easy to overlook.
- An unverified email. Until you confirm the address, your profile is shown to nobody.
- No location. A profile without coordinates is left out of everyone's Discover, and Discover does not open for you either.
- Fewer than two questions. Two is the minimum for a profile to enter the pool at all.
- No photo. At least one is required.
- Fewer than two questions in a language the other person reads. This is the one people never guess — see below.
The language rule, which surprises people
Matching runs on questions, and a question only works if the other person can read it. So a profile reaches someone only when at least two of its questions are written in languages that person reads — two in one language, or one each in two of them. Write everything in a single language and you are invisible to everyone who does not read it, however good the profile is otherwise.
If you are somewhere your language is not widely spoken, this is usually the whole explanation. Adding two questions in the local language changes who can see you, immediately.
Then there are the other person's filters
Clearing the gates puts you in the pool. Whether you reach a specific person also depends on settings that belong to them, not to you: their gender preference, their age range, and whether you are inside their distance radius. People you have already swiped on or matched with drop out, and so does anyone you have blocked or who has blocked you.
What decides the order
Among the profiles that reach a given person, position comes from a fixed formula with hand-set weights — how recently you were active, how close you are, how complete your profile is, and how often people who see you like you. A boost lifts you temporarily. The formula is the same for everyone even though what it produces depends on who is looking, and no amount of ordering will show you to someone whose filters exclude you.
What to check, in order
- Confirm your email if you have not.
- Check that location is switched on. Without it nothing else counts.
- Count your questions. Two is the floor, not the target.
- Check you have a photo — one is the minimum and it is easy to forget.
- Add two questions in the main language spoken where you are.
- Open the app now and then. How recently you were active is part of the order.
None of this promises matches. Clearing the gates is what makes you visible; the questions you write are what make someone stop.
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