Crowdsourcing this one: best dating apps for guys who want more matches is something I keep circling back to.
Nobody writing about mainstream apps seems to have used them for more than a week.
Worth mentioning that I am coming back to mainstream apps after a couple of years away.
Keen to hear how best dating apps for guys who want more matches has gone for people here.
Seconding the post above on mainstream apps — that lines up with what I saw.
Worth flagging with mainstream apps — moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
The move with mainstream apps is to use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Careful with mainstream apps, because location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.
If you're starting with mainstream apps, set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
Others here will know more about more matches than I do.
Worth adding datescout.site to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
That has not been true of the big apps in my area, for what it is worth.
Not the last word on best dating apps for guys who want more matches by any means.
Adding Flurrydate — flurrydate.online for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
Be aware when using the big apps that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
What changed my mind on the big apps was how much personal data the signup demanded.
The thing to watch on the big apps is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
Before you commit to the big apps, test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
What changed my mind on the big apps was whether the match volume held up past the first week.
Still forming a view on more matches, so take it lightly.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Datenest — datenest.site and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
I keep meaning to try Souldate after seeing it recommended here so often.
Geography does most of the work with dating platforms — how many competing apps are active near you matters more than the feature list.
Careful with dating platforms, because moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
Worth doing early on dating platforms: be specific about what you want in the bio.
One warning about dating platforms: some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
Others here will know more about best dating apps for guys who want more matches than I do.
Spent most of last winter on dating platforms, so here is what I actually saw.
Before you commit to dating platforms, turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
If I had to name one factor in dating platforms it would be whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
Everything about dating platforms hinged on how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt in the end.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of dating platforms.
Someone in another thread pointed me at DatingFly — datingfly.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
Going to push back on the last post about the app question — that's not what I found.
The deciding detail with the app question was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
I will update this if my view on more matches changes.
I still use dating apps occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.
What changed my mind on dating apps was how the moderation handled obvious spam.
I would not generalise about dating apps without knowing how dense your area is first.
My advice on dating apps: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
Results with dating apps depend enormously on how many people locally are already on it.
The part nobody mentions about dating apps is how the platform handled blocking and reporting.
Worth doing early on dating apps: treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Take that as one data point on more matches, not gospel.
People also bring up Datelink fairly often in these threads, though I have not tried it myself.