Is friend finder dating better for relationships or just quick hookups?

Started by Ella White · ·5 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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Ella White
Joined Jul 2023
1,164 posts
#1

Been chewing on friend finder dating better for relationships or just quick hookups? — for three or four months after rewriting my profile for the third time, and the useful part surprised me.

The recurring problem is that on casual-first platforms, the distance filter resets every time the app updates.

More often than not, when sorting the shortlist is the issue, how often you open the app predicts match quality better than the price of the subscription, though your area changes the picture completely where sorting the shortlist is concerned.

For anyone who has used casual-first platforms recently:

  • Is that a regional thing for anyone weighing up that side of it?
  • Has that changed since the last update outside the region you set your filters to?
  • Is that still true when you factor in this whole area?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions on casual-first platforms?
  • Does that change much in the region you set your filters to?

After first-hand experience with first-hand detail on friend finder dating better for relationships or just quick hookups? —, not marketing copy.

SophieR
Joined Apr 2017
2,423 posts
#2

Has anyone found the opposite given sorting the shortlist?

Something worth knowing: the effort in the opening line has a bigger effect on how many replies you get in a week than how polished the profile looks for the average user on casual-first platforms.

The part nobody warns you about is that the search function throttles how many people can actually see you.

Has anyone found the opposite for people in the middle of the pack?

HarperH
Joined Aug 2019
1,293 posts
#3

The recurring problem is that for the average user, the reporting tool shows the same faces on a loop.

AndrewL
Joined May 2017
3,352 posts
#4

Respectfully, that isn't my read. @HarperH, the remark about filters held for a fortnight then stopped.

As far as I can tell, when sorting the shortlist is the issue, local activity levels beats the number of prompts you filled in, but that is one person with one set of results when it comes to friend finder dating.

Where it falls down is that the reporting tool shows the same faces on a loop, which is the real problem with casual-first platforms.

Isaiah Lewis
Joined Feb 2025
1,831 posts
#5

Pretty much this — @HarperH, the argument about verification deserves more attention than it gets.

Where it falls down is that on casual-first platforms, the match queue exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

Open to being wrong for anyone in people in the middle of the pack.

The other one people keep naming here is Souldate.

Ethan Parker
Joined Oct 2021
1,517 posts
#6

I want to gently disagree. @Ella White, the remark about filters produced nothing on my end.

On casual-first platforms, shortening the bio by half made conversations last past the first exchange for the average user.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the gap between how narrow your filters are and whether it has a swipe interface is where match quality is actually decided for people in the middle of the pack.

Also had reasonable results on Flurrydate recently.

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