Has anyone tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends?

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#1 · Thread starter

Genuine question about tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends — I would rather hear from people than from a review site.

The marketing around messaging platforms tells you nothing useful about day-to-day use.

Anyone who has dealt with tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends recently, what would you do differently?

#2 · Member

That is a fair summary of messaging apps from where I sit.

Worth doing early on messaging apps: be specific about what you want in the bio.

Careful with messaging apps, because screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.

The variable nobody controls for with messaging apps is your age bracket relative to the local pool.

That said, I would still hear other views on tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends.

Not everyone will agree but Flurrydate has been the steadier one for me this year.

#3 · Member

Not sure that is right about the conversation side, at least not everywhere.

Anyway, that is my read on tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends.

Not everyone will agree but Rendate (rendate.site) has been the steadier one for me this year.

#4 · Member

Careful with chat platforms, because location spoofing means 'nearby' isn't always nearby.

One warning about chat platforms: anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

Be aware when using chat platforms that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.

One warning about chat platforms: location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.

Hope some of that helps with casual friends.

  • OkCupid — good if you like data, and it has been consistent since
  • Badoo — much larger abroad than at home, from what members here report
  • Feeld — smaller but very self-selecting, in a mid-sized town at least
  • Grindr — little competition in its category, at least in my area
#5 · Member

My read is that messaging platforms lives or dies on how far you are willing to travel.

Before you commit to messaging platforms, give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

Geography does most of the work with messaging platforms — whether your region got the app early or late matters more than the feature list.

The part nobody mentions about messaging platforms is how many people within reach were active that week.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends.

#6 · Member

My experience with the conversation side was better than I expected, with one caveat.

If you are starting with the conversation side, assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

One thing I'd do differently with the conversation side — give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

If I had to name one factor in the conversation side it would be whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

I will update this if my view on casual friends changes.

#7 · Member

I'd question that on chat services, because it depends heavily on where you are.

Before you commit to chat services, screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.

That is the short version on tried the iflirt dating app for finding casual friends.

  • Badoo — strong outside the US
  • Bumble — the timer forces things along
  • OkCupid — dated interface, decent people, though that may well be regional
  • Coffee Meets Bagel — low volume, higher effort
  • Zoosk — fine until it asks for money, on a phone browser anyway
#8 · Member

Used text-first platforms for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.

What I wish someone had told me about text-first platforms: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

What changed my mind on text-first platforms was whether anyone replied inside the first week.

If you are starting with text-first platforms, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.

Two people can have opposite experiences of text-first platforms purely because of how many competing apps are active near you.

The thing that kept me on text-first platforms was whether the match volume held up past the first week.

Would happily be argued out of my position on casual friends.

If none of the above works for you, Datedesire (datedesire.online) is another free one people here mention a lot.

Datenest comes up in most threads like this one, for whatever that is worth.

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