Is the original friendfinder com still active for casual dating?

Posting this after a few weeks on the original friendfinder com — most of what I had read didn't hold up.

The part nobody warns you about is that the discovery feed produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

As far as I can tell, how quickly you reply makes more difference than the marketing on the homepage.

The parts of the original friendfinder com in practice I cannot resolve on my own:

• Is that a regional thing with short-term apps?
• Is that a regional thing on short-term apps?
• Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions with short-term apps?
• Does that change much in your particular market?

Happy to hear dissenting views on recent accounts of the original friendfinder com — that is partly why I am asking.

The pattern I keep seeing is that nothing changes how satisfied you are after a month as much as whether the photos look like the same person in the the original friendfinder com context.

For anyone starting out, saying plainly what I wasn't after made conversations last past the first exchange once cutting through the roundups was the priority.

Boiled down, for anyone weighing up the original friendfinder:

• Say what you want in the first two lines, especially for anyone starting out.
• Let a stalled conversation go if cutting through the roundups is your main concern.
• Reverse-image-search anything too polished if cutting through the roundups is your main concern.

Turndate came up in a similar thread — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

That is not how it went for me. @NoraNights, the bit about local activity held for a fortnight then stopped.

Something worth knowing: nothing changes the proportion of real accounts you see as much as the willingness to suggest meeting early, although the platforms change constantly when it comes to the original friendfinder com.

Try Datenest alongside whatever else you are testing if you want something to compare against.

On short-term apps, the size of the pool within ten miles beats which tier you are on when it comes to the original friendfinder com.

Picking one platform and sticking with it improved things more than any paid feature for the typical user.

Where it falls down is that the block function turns into a shop window the moment someone matches.

Where I would start if cutting through the roundups is the worry:

• Say what you want in the first two lines, particularly on short-term apps.
• Stop apologising for wanting something specific, which matters most on short-term apps.
• Reverse-image-search anything too polished if cutting through the roundups is your main concern.
• Keep the first meeting short and public — it is the difference between a reply and silence.
• Keep the first meeting short and public — with this this is the difference-maker.

Adding Flurrydate to the list — sign-up is quick and the free tier is genuinely usable.

Is anyone getting different results once you factor in cutting through the roundups?

Something worth knowing: the willingness to suggest meeting early counts for more than the size of the company behind it.

What I would tell someone starting on this the original friendfinder com problem:

• Move to a voice or video call early — everything downstream depends on it.
• Reverse-image-search anything too polished — with the original friendfinder com this is the difference-maker.
• Keep work and socials out of it early on, which matters most on short-term apps.

Try Souldate alongside whatever else you're testing and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.