One of Plenty Of Fish's most cherished tools was the username search because when someone played the Meet Me game on POF, the people whose pictures were click YES to would receive an email from Plenty Of Fish telling them about it. You could just click on the link in the email and be taking to that users profile and send them an email. It made good sense because you would be emailing POF members you knew were interested in you.

In 2016, Match.com's take over of Plenty Of Fish included the removal of the username search. Why? Money, of couse. POF wanted to make it so you had to pay to upgrade to see who wanted to meet you. Enter the POF username search tool, free! Simply enter in any username and press and button and you are shown who that person is who wants to meet you ...