Is there a master list of all dating sites categorized by niche?

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#1 · Thread starter

Been going back and forth on master list of all dating sites categorized by niche for a while and I still can't land on an answer.

Nobody writing about the platforms involved seems to have used them for more than a week.

Where should someone start with master list of all dating sites categorized by niche? Open to anything.

#2 · Member

This matches my experience of this kind of service almost exactly.

The thing to watch on this kind of service is that anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

Worth doing early on this kind of service: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

Hope some of that helps with master list of all dating sites categorized by niche.

Worth adding DatingFly to the list if you are comparing free options this week.

#3 · Member

Different view here on services like this — it worked better than the post above suggests.

That is where I have landed on master list of all dating sites categorized by niche, at least for now.

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

#4 · Member

Careful with this category, because the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.

If I had to name one factor in this category it would be how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.

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

What decides this category for most people is how far you are willing to travel, not the app itself.

The move with this category is to use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

Your mileage on master list of all dating sites categorized by niche may differ, obviously.

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

I keep meaning to try Datedesire after seeing it recommended here so often.

#5 · Member

My read is that these services lives or dies on the time of year.

The part nobody mentions about these services is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

That is where I have landed on by niche, at least for now.

#6 · Member

I came to the options here from the paid apps and the difference was noticeable.

The thing that kept me on the options here was how the platform handled blocking and reporting.

Careful with the options here, because anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

Take that as one data point on master list of all dating sites categorized by niche, not gospel.

Adding Flamedate for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.

#7 · Member

I had the opposite result with these platforms, so I would take that with some salt.

If you're starting with these platforms, message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.

Would happily be argued out of my position on by niche.

Counterpoint: I found Luvdate (luvdate.site) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.

#8 · Member

My experience with the options on the table was better than I expected, with one caveat.

With the options on the table it came down to whether profiles felt written by real people, honestly.

The part nobody mentions about the options on the table is whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.

Anyone claiming the options on the table works everywhere has not tested it against whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.

If I had to name one factor in the options on the table it would be how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

Not the last word on master list of all dating sites categorized by niche by any means.

You could add Turndate to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.

#9 · Member

I still use services like this occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.

That is roughly where I sit on by niche today.

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