{"id":2814,"date":"2026-09-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:39:56","slug":"version-4-was-our-new-game-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/version-4-was-our-new-game-plus","title":{"rendered":"Version 4 Was Our New Game+"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 26 of this year, the fourth version of the LFGdating app went live on iOS. I have shipped an app before. The first one went out in May of 2019, and I remember that day as pure adrenaline: refreshing the store page, texting Pat screenshots, feeling like we&#8217;d built a spaceship in a garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February felt different, and it took me a while to figure out why. It wasn&#8217;t less exciting. 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