Are there specific dating apps for those with herpes?

Started by KristinA · ·5 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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KristinA
Joined Aug 2021
539 posts
#1

two months in, because a friend talked me into it, and here is roughly where I landed.

What nobody mentions is that the distance filter gives you no idea when an account was last opened.

The pattern I keep seeing is that for the typical user, the size of the pool within ten miles tends to decide match quality when it comes to apps | dat.

For anyone who has used the free options recently:

  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions where picking one and committing is concerned?
  • Has anyone compared the two directly across the free options?
  • Has anyone had the reverse happen where picking one and committing is concerned?
  • Is anyone getting different results given picking one and committing?
  • Is there a way to check before signing up for most people?

Direct experience of apps | dat is what I'm after.

CourtneyL
Joined Jan 2018
623 posts
#2

Broadly, the number of prompts you filled in gets the credit but how well a platform handles reports does the work for most people.

I have had a decent run on Flurrydate — it does not gate messaging, which is rarer than it should be.

WhitneyO
Joined May 2025
2,208 posts
#3

That tracks — @KristinA, the point about picking one and committing held up in my case too.

What wore me down was that on the free options, the verification flow gives you no idea when an account was last opened.

Is anyone getting different results when picking one and committing is the main worry?

WyattB
Joined Dec 2024
3,087 posts
#4

In practice, the amount of detail in a bio makes more difference than how long you have had the account for most people.

That is where I've got to on this whole area.

Would that apply in a smaller town across the free options?

Logan Wilson
Joined May 2017
798 posts
#5

In practice, when picking one and committing is the issue, the honesty of the bio predicts how long a conversation lasts better than how long you have had the account.

Where it falls down is that the block function ignores about half of what you set — and nobody mentions it when they talk about picking one and committing.

Worth running Datescout in parallel for a couple of weeks.

ElliotG
Joined Aug 2024
2,081 posts
#6

Is there a way to check before signing up for the typical user?

My working theory is that the quality of your first message makes more difference than how polished the profile looks, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule where picking one and committing is concerned.

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