Where is the best place to meet people online for friendship and dating?

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#1 · Thread starter

Been going back and forth on best place to meet people online for friendship and for a while and I still cannot land on an answer.

The reviews I have read on this category are either three years old or obviously paid.

Background: I have tried two of the mainstream this category and neither stuck.

If you have first-hand experience of best place to meet people online for friendship and, I would genuinely like to hear it.

#2 · Member

Can confirm the point above regarding services like this.

The deciding detail with services like this was whether the photos looked recent or recycled.

The deciding detail with services like this was whether anyone replied inside the first week.

Ask if you want detail on any part of best place to meet people online for friendship and.

#3 · Member

Respectfully disagree on these platforms — my experience with these platforms ran the other way.

The real differentiator across these platforms turned out to be how many people within reach were active that week.

That is the short version on friendship and.

#4 · Member

Be aware when using services like this that a trial that renews is not the same as free.

The thing that kept me on services like this was whether it worked without installing anything.

Practical tip for services like this: set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.

Judging services like this without knowing how many competing apps are active near you is close to meaningless.

Interested to see what others say about best place to meet people online for friendship and.

  • Happn — quiet outside metros, as of this year
  • Hinge — people write more here, from what members here report
  • Tinder — the one everyone has tried at least once, and it has been consistent since
  • Plenty of Fish — free tier is more generous than most, in a mid-sized town at least
  • Zoosk — the algorithm does adapt over time

A friend of mine swears by EZHookups (ezhookups.online), though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.

#5 · Member

Two people can have opposite experiences of the options on the table purely because of whether you are in a commuter town or a city.

Careful with the options on the table, because some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.

Others here will know more about friendship and than I do.

You will see Datenest mentioned around here too — mixed reviews, decide for yourself.

#6 · Member

I gave the platforms involved a proper go for a couple of months before giving up.

Before you commit to the platforms involved, finish the profile completely before you browse anything.

What mattered most with the platforms involved in the end was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

I will update this if my view on best place to meet people online for friendship and changes.

#7 · Member

Going to push back on the last post about this category — that is not what I found.

My advice on this category: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with best place to meet people online for friendship and.

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

#8 · Member

I have used this kind of service on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.

With this kind of service the thing that decided it for me was whether anyone replied inside the first week.

My advice on this kind of service: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

The variable nobody controls for with this kind of service is whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.

Judging this kind of service without knowing the day of the week you actually use it is close to meaningless.

Not the last word on best place to meet people online for friendship and by any means.

  • Hinge — people write more here, over roughly six weeks
  • Facebook Dating — fine if you already use the platform
  • Plenty of Fish — unglamorous and still busy, though that may well be regional

Someone in another thread pointed me at datelink.online and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.

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