#1 · Thread starter
Crowdsourcing this one: platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for is something I keep circling back to.
The reviews I have read on the sites in question are either three years old or obviously paid.
Tell me about platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for from experience rather than from a review page.
#2 · Member
Can confirm the point above regarding services like this.
What mattered most with services like this in the end was how many accounts looked dormant.
Geography does most of the work with services like this — how far you're willing to travel matters more than the feature list.
Others here will know more about platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for than I do.
#3 · Member
Different view here on these services — it worked better than the post above suggests.
Interested to see what others say about sites for.
#4 · Member
Worth flagging with this kind of service — location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.
If you are starting with this kind of service, screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
The move with this kind of service is to avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
With this kind of service it came down to how much personal data the signup demanded, honestly.
Anyway, that is my read on sites for.
I also keep half an eye on Datescout — datescout.site — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.
Luvdate has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.
#5 · Member
In a smaller town these platforms behaves very differently once you account for how wide you set the radius.
What I wish someone had told me about these platforms: read the whole profile before writing the first line.
Interested to see what others say about sites for.
Someone earlier recommended datingfly.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
#6 · Member
Spent most of last winter on the sites in question, so here is what I actually saw.
The part nobody mentions about the sites in question is whether anyone replied inside the first week.
Be aware when using the sites in question that profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.
Before you commit to the sites in question, be specific about what you want in the bio.
Others here will know more about platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for than I do.
#7 · Member
Going to push back on the last post about these platforms — that's not what I found.
One warning about these platforms: screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
Worth doing early on these platforms: keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for.
#8 · Member
I have used the platforms involved on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
The real differentiator across the platforms involved turned out to be whether profiles felt written by real people.
What mattered most with the platforms involved in the end was how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Worth doing early on the platforms involved: use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
What changed my mind on the platforms involved was whether the search filters did what they claimed.
One warning about the platforms involved: location spoofing means 'nearby' isn't always nearby.
That said, I would still hear other views on platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for.
- Plenty of Fish — unglamorous and still busy, in a mid-sized town at least
- Hinge — slower but the conversations go further, from what members here report
- Zoosk — the algorithm does adapt over time, though I only tried the free tier
- Badoo — worth trying if the US apps are dead near you
- Coffee Meets Bagel — forces you to actually read profiles, from what members here report
I rotate between a couple of these and Flamedate, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
#9 · Member
Tried these services twice, years apart, and the second attempt went much better.
Judging these services without knowing whether you are in a commuter town or a city is close to meaningless.
That is where I've landed on platforms brand themselves as the best dating sites for, at least for now.
#10 · Member
What was said above about this category is right, in my view.
The move with this category is to treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
My read is that this category lives or dies on whether your region got the app early or late.
Careful with this category, because the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
Interested to see what others say about sites for.