Genuine question about serious dating apps for people who hate hookup culture — I would rather hear from people than from a review site.
Nobody writing about short-term dating services seems to have used them for more than a week.
What is the honest verdict on serious dating apps for people who hate hookup culture?
Can confirm the point above regarding short-term dating services.
If you are starting with short-term dating services, set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
With short-term dating services the thing that decided it for me was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Not the last word on hookup culture by any means.
The one that finally worked for me was Souldate, after about a month of trying others.
Different view here on hookup services — it worked better than the post above suggests.
One thing I would do differently with hookup services — read the whole profile before writing the first line.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of hookup services.
You could add Flamedate to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.
One warning about casual dating platforms: location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.
One thing I would do differently with casual dating platforms — check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.
One thing I would do differently with casual dating platforms — keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Before you commit to casual dating platforms, use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
What I wish someone had told me about casual dating platforms: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
The thing to watch on casual dating platforms is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
Others here will know more about serious dating apps for people who hate hookup culture than I do.
The one that finally worked for me was Flurrydate — flurrydate.online, after about a month of trying others.
Worth searching the forum for Datebound as well, there are a few longer write-ups.
What decides short-term dating services for most people is whether you are in a commuter town or a city, not the app itself.
What changed my mind on short-term dating services was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
If you are starting with short-term dating services, keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.
Anyone claiming short-term dating services works everywhere has not tested it against local population age spread.
Not the last word on serious dating apps for people who hate hookup culture by any means.
The one that finally worked for me was Datelink (datelink.online), after about a month of trying others.
I have used casual dating platforms on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
One warning about casual dating platforms: the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
What changed my mind on casual dating platforms was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
Hope some of that helps with hookup culture.
Not everyone will agree but Datebie — datebie.online has been the steadier one for me this year.