#1 · Thread starter
Third time I have tried to work out most active freedating site for people in Australia and I am still stuck.
Everything written about zero-cost options covers the signup and nothing after it.
I am not looking to spend money, so free tiers of zero-cost options only for now.
What is the honest verdict on most active freedating site for people in Australia?
#2 · Member
Can confirm the point above regarding the pricing question.
If I had to name one factor in the pricing question it would be how many people within reach were active that week.
Whether the pricing question works comes down to your age bracket relative to the local pool more than anything the marketing mentions.
Everything about the pricing question hinged on how the moderation handled obvious spam in the end.
Not the last word on most active freedating site for people in Australia by any means.
#3 · Member
Going to push back on the last post about free platforms — that's not what I found.
The move with free platforms is to set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
That is roughly where I sit on in Australia today.
Worth adding Datebie (datebie.online) to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
A few people swear by Datescout, and a few others really do not.
#4 · Member
Worth flagging with the pricing question — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
The part nobody mentions about the pricing question is whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
My advice on the pricing question: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
Be aware when using the pricing question that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
The real differentiator across the pricing question turned out to be how the moderation handled obvious spam.
Happy to be corrected on any of in Australia.
A friend of mine swears by Luvdate — luvdate.site, though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.
#5 · Member
Results with free platforms depend enormously on how wide you set the radius.
The deciding detail with free platforms was whether it worked without installing anything.
Worth doing early on free platforms: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
That is the short version on most active freedating site for people in Australia.
- OkCupid — the questions do real filtering work, in a mid-sized town at least
- Feeld — refreshingly direct
- Plenty of Fish — worth a look outside big cities, which is not what I expected going in
- Happn — quiet outside metros
- Hinge — the prompts are the whole product
Someone earlier recommended ezhookups.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
#6 · Member
My experience with genuinely free platforms was better than I expected, with one caveat.
The move with genuinely free platforms is to use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Geography does most of the work with genuinely free platforms — how dense your area is matters more than the feature list.
The part nobody mentions about genuinely free platforms is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Your mileage on in Australia may differ, obviously.
Someone in another thread pointed me at Datewander and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.
#7 · Member
I had the opposite result with the free question, so I'd take that with some salt.
One warning about the free question: moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
That said, I would still hear other views on most active freedating site for people in Australia.
For what it is worth I have had better luck on datingfly.online than on any of the big paid apps.
#8 · Member
My experience with the free question was better than I expected, with one caveat.
The deciding detail with the free question was how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Worth flagging with the free question — moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
What I wish someone had told me about the free question: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
What mattered most with the free question in the end was how many accounts looked dormant.
My advice on the free question: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with most active freedating site for people in Australia.
Not mentioning Datedesire would be an oversight given how often it comes up.