#1 · Thread starter
Trying to get a straight answer on if you had to rank the top five dating without wading through sponsored content.
I care less about feature lists on services like this and more about whether anyone replies.
Background: I have tried two of the mainstream services like this and neither stuck.
Anyone who has dealt with if you had to rank the top five dating recently, what would you do differently?
#2 · Member
That is a fair summary of the sites in question from where I sit.
What decides the sites in question for most people is how many competing apps are active near you, not the app itself.
In a smaller town the sites in question behaves very differently once you account for local population age spread.
Anyone claiming the sites in question works everywhere has not tested it against how wide you set the radius.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with if you had to rank the top five dating.
Datebound has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.
#3 · Member
Not sure that's right about the platforms involved, at least not everywhere.
With the platforms involved the thing that decided it for me was how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with if you had to rank the top five dating.
#4 · Member
One warning about these platforms: some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
My advice on these platforms: treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Be aware when using these platforms that a trial that renews is not the same as free.
If I had to name one factor in these platforms it would be how many people within reach were active that week.
With these platforms it came down to how the platform handled blocking and reporting, honestly.
If you are starting with these platforms, turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
That covers what I know about these platforms, at least.
For what it is worth I have had better luck on Datelink than on any of the big paid apps.
#5 · Member
The variable nobody controls for with services like this is how wide you set the radius.
Be aware when using services like this that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
Careful with services like this, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
Interested to see what others say about if you had to rank the top five dating.
Not everyone will agree but Datenest has been the steadier one for me this year.
#6 · Member
My experience with this kind of service was better than I expected, with one caveat.
If I had to name one factor in this kind of service it would be how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.
With this kind of service it came down to whether the radius setting actually worked, honestly.
That said, I would still hear other views on if you had to rank the top five dating.
- Feeld — the community knows why it is there, which is not what I expected going in
- OkCupid — good if you like data, in a mid-sized town at least
- Zoosk — mixed reports lately
- Hinge — people write more here, from what members here report
Someone in another thread pointed me at Flurrydate — flurrydate.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.