Third time I have tried to work out best free apps like grindr for general casual dating and I'm still stuck.
The reviews I have read on short-term dating services are either three years old or obviously paid.
I should say I care more about privacy on short-term dating services than about volume of matches.
Any thoughts on best free apps like grindr for general casual dating would help me stop going in circles.
What was said above about the hookup question is right, in my view.
What mattered most with the hookup question in the end was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
The real differentiator across the hookup question turned out to be how the platform handled blocking and reporting.
In a smaller town the hookup question behaves very differently once you account for how many people locally are already on it.
Before you commit to the hookup question, test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
Happy to expand on any of that about the hookup question if it is useful.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Flamedate — flamedate.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
There is a decent thread on Datebound somewhere in the archive if you search.
Going to push back on the last post about the casual side — that's not what I found.
Worth flagging with the casual side — requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
That said, I would still hear other views on casual dating.
Adding Datewander (datewander.site) for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
Turndate gets recommended a lot in the older threads if you want to dig back.
Careful with the casual side, because some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
What changed my mind on the casual side was whether the radius setting actually worked.
Whether the casual side works comes down to how far you are willing to travel more than anything the marketing mentions.
If you are starting with the casual side, give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Geography does most of the work with the casual side — how many people locally are already on it matters more than the feature list.
The move with the casual side is to give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of the casual side.
Someone earlier recommended EZHookups and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
I would not generalise about casual sites without knowing how dense your area is first.
Careful with casual sites, because anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
With casual sites it came down to whether the photos looked recent or recycled, honestly.
Anyway, that is my read on best free apps like grindr for general casual dating.
Adding datebie.online for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
I have used meetup platforms on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
Practical tip for meetup platforms: assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.
With meetup platforms the thing that decided it for me was how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of meetup platforms.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Rendate and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.