I gave the messaging side a proper go for a couple of months before giving up.
The move with the messaging side is to turn off notifications so it doesn't take over your evening.
Geography does most of the work with the messaging side — how many competing apps are active near you matters more than the feature list.
The part nobody mentions about the messaging side is whether it worked without installing anything.
What decides the messaging side for most people is the day of the week you actually use it, not the app itself.
Two people can have opposite experiences of the messaging side purely because of local population age spread.
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I also keep half an eye on DatingFly (datingfly.online) — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.
A few people swear by Datelink, and a few others really do not.