What is the best bbw dating app for finding serious relationships?

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#1 · Thread starter

Been going back and forth on best bbw dating app for finding serious relationships for a while and I still cannot land on an answer.

Everything written about phone apps covers the signup and nothing after it.

Anyone who has dealt with best bbw dating app for finding serious relationships recently, what would you do differently?

#2 · Member

What was said above about dating platforms is right, in my view.

Geography does most of the work with dating platforms — whether you are in a commuter town or a city matters more than the feature list.

The part nobody mentions about dating platforms is how many accounts looked dormant.

Practical tip for dating platforms: treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.

Two people can have opposite experiences of dating platforms purely because of your age bracket relative to the local pool.

Happy to be corrected on any of serious relationships.

For what it is worth I have had better luck on Rendate — rendate.site than on any of the big paid apps.

#3 · Member

Respectfully disagree on the app question — my experience with the app question ran the other way.

That covers what I know about the app question, at least.

If none of the above works for you, luvdate.site is another free one people here mention a lot.

#4 · Member

One warning about dating platforms: the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.

Worth flagging with dating platforms — profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.

My advice on dating platforms: set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.

What mattered most with dating platforms in the end was how many accounts looked dormant.

The part nobody mentions about dating platforms is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

That covers what I know about dating platforms, at least.

Someone earlier recommended Datelink — datelink.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.

#5 · Member

Two people can have opposite experiences of phone apps purely because of whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.

The deciding detail with phone apps was whether it worked without installing anything.

If you are starting with phone apps, finish the profile completely before you browse anything.

In a smaller town phone apps behaves very differently once you account for how many people locally are already on it.

I will update this if my view on serious relationships changes.

A friend of mine swears by Flurrydate — flurrydate.online, though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.

Not mentioning Souldate would be an oversight given how often it comes up.

#6 · Member

I came to dating platforms from the paid apps and the difference was noticeable.

My read is that dating platforms lives or dies on how many competing apps are active near you.

Everything about dating platforms hinged on whether profiles felt written by real people in the end.

With dating platforms it came down to whether it worked without installing anything, honestly.

I will update this if my view on best bbw dating app for finding serious relationships changes.

  • Grindr — the default for a reason
  • Happn — quiet outside metros, based on about a month of use
  • OkCupid — good if you like data, over roughly six weeks
  • Hinge — more relationship-leaning but has casual users too
  • Coffee Meets Bagel — slower paced and more intentional, at least in my area

The one that finally worked for me was EZHookups (ezhookups.online), after about a month of trying others.

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