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Been at this a few weeks now, out of curiosity more than anything, and the useful part surprised me.
Where it falls down is that the recommendation engine exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade, especially once the which-one question comes into it.
After first-hand experience with the blk dating website better than, not marketing copy.
Similar story on my end — @AndrewL, the paywall comment is underrated.
Saying plainly what I was not after turned it from a chore into something workable for the average user.
For what it is worth, when the which-one question is the issue, how narrow your filters are beats the marketing on the homepage where the which-one question is concerned.
The compressed version, the which-one question included:
Hope some of that helps given how fast the free options change.
Has anyone had the reverse happen in the area you actually search in?
As far as I can tell, the effort in the opening line outweighs how long you have had the account.
Applied to the blk dating website better than in practice, that means:
That is where I have got to for anyone in the average user.
Has anyone found the opposite for the typical user?
The recurring problem is that the profile editor surfaces profiles that haven't been touched in months — and nobody mentions it when they talk about the which-one question.
On the free options, asking one real question instead of four got three actual meetings out of six weeks.
What actually frustrates me is that on the free options, the photo verification step shows the same faces on a loop.
Does that match what others see for the typical user?
I'd push back a little. @SeanO, the note on the free options held for a fortnight then stopped.
What nobody mentions is that the match queue quietly stops working after the first week — and nobody mentions it when they talk about the which-one question.
Something worth knowing: how narrow your filters are does more for whether it feels worth the time than whether it has a swipe interface, though a friend had the reverse experience.
Been running Datedesire in parallel purely on how busy it is locally.
Can confirm — @SeanO, the bit about local activity held up in my case too.
On balance, nothing changes whether it feels worth the time as much as the clarity of your main photo for the typical user.
Datebound has been the steadier of the ones I run — it does not gate messaging, which is rarer than it should be.
Asking one real question instead of four made conversations last past the first exchange.
More often than not, the gap between whether an account has been verified and how many matches you accumulate is where how satisfied you're after a month is actually decided.
The detail that ruins it is that on the free options, the search function makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.
The parts that transfer across the free options:
Has anyone tested this recently for anyone weighing up website better than?
The pattern I keep seeing is that when the which-one question is the issue, how specific you are about what you want makes more difference than the number of photos you upload for the average user.
The part nobody warns you about is that for the typical user, the match queue seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.
Not sure I agree. @Penelope Garcia, the paywall comment reads as survivorship bias to me.
What nobody mentions is that the discovery feed seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking — and nobody mentions it when they talk about the which-one question.
My working theory is that the number of photos you upload gets the credit but how long you leave a conversation running does the work.
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