What are the key elements of a perfect dating profile for a guy?

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Been going back and forth on key elements of a perfect dating profile for a for a while and I still cannot land on an answer.

Half the write-ups on these platforms contradict the other half, which is not helpful.

I should say I care more about privacy on these platforms than about volume of matches.

If you have first-hand experience of key elements of a perfect dating profile for a, I would genuinely like to hear it.

#2 · Member

That is a fair summary of these services from where I sit.

Everything about these services hinged on whether the photos looked recent or recycled in the end.

If you are starting with these services, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.

The real differentiator across these services turned out to be how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

Practical tip for these services: assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

Interested to see what others say about for a.

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That has not been true of the options here in my area, for what it is worth.

The move with the options here is to screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.

Ask if you want detail on any part of for a.

#4 · Member

One warning about dating platforms: requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

Before you commit to dating platforms, turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.

Worth flagging with dating platforms — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.

Before you commit to dating platforms, read the whole profile before writing the first line.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with key elements of a perfect dating profile for a.

The one that finally worked for me was Souldate (souldate.site), after about a month of trying others.

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Geography does most of the work with this kind of service — whether your region got the app early or late matters more than the feature list.

My read is that this kind of service lives or dies on how wide you set the radius.

Worth doing early on this kind of service: read the whole profile before writing the first line.

Take that as one data point on for a, not gospel.

Adding Luvdate (luvdate.site) for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.

DatingFly has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.

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Been using services like this steadily since the spring and it has been fine.

The thing that kept me on services like this was whether profiles felt written by real people.

Worth doing early on services like this: keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.

Happy to be corrected on any of key elements of a perfect dating profile for a.

  • Plenty of Fish — free tier is more generous than most, and it has been consistent since
  • Happn — the concept works better in dense areas, which is not what I expected going in
  • Bumble — the timer forces things along, from what members here report
#7 · Member

Different view here on these platforms — it worked better than the post above suggests.

What changed my mind on these platforms was how many accounts looked dormant.

Your mileage on key elements of a perfect dating profile for a may differ, obviously.

Counterpoint: I found datelink.online slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.

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Been using this category steadily since the spring and it has been fine.

Before you commit to this category, assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

With this category the thing that decided it for me was how the site behaved on a phone browser.

The part nobody mentions about this category is how the site behaved on a phone browser.

One thing I would do differently with this category — check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.

Before you commit to this category, set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.

Interested to see what others say about for a.

  • Grindr — efficient, not romantic, in a mid-sized town at least
  • Feeld — smaller but very self-selecting
  • Coffee Meets Bagel — slower paced and more intentional, as of this year
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