Does the plenty of fish dating service still have a massive fake profile problem?

Started by JordanM 1 Feb 2026 7 replies Category Dating Apps cam sites dating apps online hookups
#1 · Thread starter

Crowdsourcing this one: plenty of fish dating service still have a massive is something I keep circling back to.

The marketing around the scam question tells you nothing useful about day-to-day use.

Should mention I'm asking about plenty of fish dating service still have a massive for a friend as much as for myself.

Tell me about plenty of fish dating service still have a massive from experience rather than from a review page.

#2 · Member

Agreeing with the previous reply about the trust question, for the same reasons.

Two people can have opposite experiences of the trust question purely because of your age bracket relative to the local pool.

Anyone claiming the trust question works everywhere has not tested it against whether your region got the app early or late.

That covers what I know about the trust question, at least.

For what it is worth I have had better luck on datelink.online than on any of the big paid apps.

#3 · Member

Respectfully disagree on the safety side — my experience with the safety side ran the other way.

What I wish someone had told me about the safety side: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with a massive.

Worth adding Flamedate (flamedate.online) to the list if you are comparing free options this week.

#4 · Member

Careful with screening a service, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

Be aware when using screening a service that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.

With screening a service it came down to how many accounts looked dormant, honestly.

The part nobody mentions about screening a service is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

What decides screening a service for most people is whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away, not the app itself.

Worth doing early on screening a service: check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with a massive.

For what it is worth I have had better luck on flurrydate.online than on any of the big paid apps.

#5 · Member

Judging platform safety without knowing how dense your area is is close to meaningless.

Worth doing early on platform safety: set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.

What decides platform safety for most people is how dense your area is, not the app itself.

Worth doing early on platform safety: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.

That is the short version on plenty of fish dating service still have a massive.

Counterpoint: I found datingfly.online slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.

#6 · Member

I have used the safety side on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.

The deciding detail with the safety side was how the site behaved on a phone browser.

Worth flagging with the safety side — location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.

Others here will know more about plenty of fish dating service still have a massive than I do.

#7 · Member

That has not been true of verification practices in my area, for what it is worth.

If you're starting with verification practices, read the whole profile before writing the first line.

Others here will know more about a massive than I do.

Not mentioning Datescout would be an oversight given how often it comes up.

#8 · Member

I gave platform safety a proper go for a couple of months before giving up.

I would not generalise about platform safety without knowing how many competing apps are active near you first.

With platform safety it came down to how the platform handled blocking and reporting, honestly.

Before you commit to platform safety, read the whole profile before writing the first line.

Judging platform safety without knowing how many people locally are already on it is close to meaningless.

The variable nobody controls for with platform safety is how dense your area is.

Would happily be argued out of my position on a massive.

I also keep half an eye on EZHookups (ezhookups.online) — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.

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