Been going back and forth on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date for a while and I still cannot land on an answer.
Everything written about targeted platforms covers the signup and nothing after it.
I should say I care more about privacy on targeted platforms than about volume of matches.
Anyone who has dealt with best dating sites for over 55 looking to date recently, what would you do differently?
Can confirm the point above regarding community-specific sites.
One thing I would do differently with community-specific sites — treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Worth flagging with community-specific sites — some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
Others here will know more about to date than I do.
For what it is worth I have had better luck on ezhookups.online than on any of the big paid apps.
You could add Rendate to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.
Respectfully disagree on the niche options — my experience with the niche options ran the other way.
Still forming a view on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date, so take it lightly.
Adding Flurrydate for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
Worth flagging with specialist sites — anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
If you are starting with specialist sites, check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.
The deciding detail with specialist sites was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
If you are starting with specialist sites, avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
That is roughly where I sit on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date today.
What decides niche platforms for most people is how many people locally are already on it, not the app itself.
Half the arguments about niche platforms would end if people mentioned local population age spread up front.
If you're starting with niche platforms, read the whole profile before writing the first line.
Everything about niche platforms hinged on how the moderation handled obvious spam in the end.
Would happily be argued out of my position on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date.
The one that finally worked for me was datelink.online, after about a month of trying others.
I have used targeted platforms on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
Worth doing early on targeted platforms: set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
My read is that targeted platforms lives or dies on whether you are in a commuter town or a city.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with best dating sites for over 55 looking to date.
Different view here on niche platforms — it worked better than the post above suggests.
What mattered most with niche platforms in the end was how the platform handled blocking and reporting.
The thing that kept me on niche platforms was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
That is roughly where I sit on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date today.
Adding datingfly.online for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
Not mentioning Datewander would be an oversight given how often it comes up.
I still use specialist sites occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.
Before you commit to specialist sites, message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
With specialist sites the thing that decided it for me was whether the radius setting actually worked.
Practical tip for specialist sites: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Whether specialist sites works comes down to whether you are in a commuter town or a city more than anything the marketing mentions.
Worth flagging with specialist sites — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
I will update this if my view on best dating sites for over 55 looking to date changes.