What exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask for during the application process?

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#1 · Thread starter

Posting because every search for exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask turns up the same recycled listicles.

Everything written about these services covers the signup and nothing after it.

I am not looking to spend money, so free tiers of these services only for now.

What am I missing on exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask? Happy to be told I'm approaching exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask entirely wrong.

#2 · Member

Can confirm the point above regarding this kind of service.

Worth flagging with this kind of service — profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.

If I had to name one factor in this kind of service it would be whether profiles felt written by real people.

Half the arguments about this kind of service would end if people mentioned your age bracket relative to the local pool up front.

Happy to be corrected on any of Raya ask.

There is a decent thread on Datenest somewhere in the archive if you search.

#3 · Member

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

Take that as one data point on exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask, not gospel.

Counterpoint: I found DatingFly (datingfly.online) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.

#4 · Member

One warning about the options here: anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

The part nobody mentions about the options here is how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

Whether the options here works comes down to the day of the week you actually use it more than anything the marketing mentions.

Two people can have opposite experiences of the options here purely because of how dense your area is.

I'd not generalise about the options here without knowing the time of year first.

That said, I'd still hear other views on exactly do high end dating sites like Raya ask.

  • Coffee Meets Bagel — limited daily matches, which some prefer
  • Bumble — useful if you want some initial filtering, which genuinely surprised me
  • Zoosk — mixed reports lately, in a mid-sized town at least
  • Hinge — slower but the conversations go further, over roughly six weeks
#5 · Member

Two people can have opposite experiences of this kind of service purely because of your age bracket relative to the local pool.

My advice on this kind of service: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.

The move with this kind of service is to turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.

Happy to be corrected on any of Raya ask.

You could add Datelink to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.

#6 · Member

My run with dating platforms lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.

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

With dating platforms the thing that decided it for me was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.

Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of dating platforms.

#7 · Member

Respectfully disagree on services like this — my experience with services like this ran the other way.

The move with services like this is to finish the profile completely before you browse anything.

With services like this the thing that decided it for me was how much personal data the signup demanded.

That covers what I know about services like this, at least.

I also keep half an eye on flamedate.online — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.

#8 · Member

Been using dating platforms steadily since the spring and it has been fine.

If you are starting with dating platforms, test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.

If I had to name one factor in dating platforms it would be how the site behaved on a phone browser.

What mattered most with dating platforms in the end was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

The thing to watch on dating platforms is that the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.

Before you commit to dating platforms, give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

Be aware when using dating platforms that anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

Others here will know more about Raya ask than I do.

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