#1 · Thread starter
I have spent longer than I would like reading about senior match dating site like for those over 60 and come away more confused.
Most of what I find on community-specific sites reads like it was written to rank, not to help.
Worth mentioning that I am coming back to community-specific sites after a couple of years away.
Any thoughts on senior match dating site like for those over 60 would help me stop going in circles.
#2 · Member
Can confirm the point above regarding targeted services.
What changed my mind on targeted services was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
I would not generalise about targeted services without knowing whether your region got the app early or late first.
Whether targeted services works comes down to whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away more than anything the marketing mentions.
What mattered most with targeted services in the end was how many accounts looked dormant.
Happy to be corrected on any of over 60.
- Zoosk — reasonable match quality, your mileage may vary
- Bumble — fewer matches but they tend to answer, based on about a month of use
- Happn — niche but active in cities
- Grindr — little competition in its category
There is a decent thread on Datedesire somewhere in the archive if you search.
#3 · Member
Respectfully disagree on the niche options — my experience with the niche options ran the other way.
Anyway, that is my read on senior match dating site like for those over 60.
#4 · Member
The thing to watch on specialist sites is that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
What I wish someone had told me about specialist sites: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
The variable nobody controls for with specialist sites is the day of the week you actually use it.
The thing to watch on specialist sites is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
What I wish someone had told me about specialist sites: read the whole profile before writing the first line.
That said, I would still hear other views on senior match dating site like for those over 60.
#5 · Member
I would not generalise about specialist sites without knowing how wide you set the radius first.
Two people can have opposite experiences of specialist sites purely because of the time of year.
That is where I've landed on senior match dating site like for those over 60, at least for now.
If none of the above works for you, Luvdate (luvdate.site) is another free one people here mention a lot.
Half the regulars here will tell you to look at Flamedate as well.
#6 · Member
I gave targeted services a proper go for a couple of months before giving up.
The deciding detail with targeted services was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
One warning about targeted services: anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
With targeted services it came down to how much personal data the signup demanded, honestly.
Your mileage on over 60 may differ, obviously.
Not everyone will agree but EZHookups (ezhookups.online) has been the steadier one for me this year.
#7 · Member
Going to push back on the last post about targeted platforms — that's not what I found.
Be aware when using targeted platforms that moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with over 60.
Not everyone will agree but Rendate (rendate.site) has been the steadier one for me this year.
#8 · Member
I still use smaller communities occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.
Everything about smaller communities hinged on whether the radius setting actually worked in the end.
The thing that kept me on smaller communities was how many accounts looked dormant.
The thing that kept me on smaller communities was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
One thing I would do differently with smaller communities — keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.
That said, I would still hear other views on over 60.