Is there a single 50 dating site that is popular for serious dating?

Started by ColbyR · ·9 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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ColbyR
Joined Apr 2022
2,943 posts
#1

a solid three months of trying to work out a single 50 dating site that is popular for serious dating? — free dat, mostly to see whether the complaints were fair, and most of what I had read did not hold up.

My sticking point is that the recommendation engine surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months, which is the real problem with no-payment platforms.

As far as I can tell, how specific you are about what you want beats the app's overall download figures for most of us.

Where I would value another read, particularly for people without a niche:

  • Does anyone know if that still holds on no-payment platforms?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for anyone in most of us?
  • Has anyone had the reverse happen across no-payment platforms?
  • Does that match what others see when you factor in this whole area?
  • Would that apply in a smaller town if you are dealing with deciding where to spend the effort?

For people without a niche, asking one real question instead of four stopped the conversations dying at day two.

Happy to hear dissenting views on a single 50 — that is partly why I am asking.

Ethan Parker
Joined Oct 2021
1,517 posts
#2

My experience was almost the opposite. @ColbyR, the point about deciding where to spend the effort is closer to the opposite in my experience.

For what it is worth, when deciding where to spend the effort is the issue, the effort in the opening line counts for more than the number of photos you upload for most of us.

What I would tell someone starting on a single 50 dating site that is popular for serious dating? — free dat in practice:

  • Set a daily time limit — with — free dat this is the difference-maker.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one, especially for people without a niche.
  • Turn the notifications off, especially for people without a niche.
  • Move to a voice or video call early if deciding where to spend the effort is your main concern.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one, especially for people without a niche.

That is my read, not gospel on a single 50.

Mateo Harris
Joined Jan 2018
1,995 posts
#3

For people without a niche, deleting everything and starting over made conversations last past the first exchange for people without a niche.

On balance, the effort in the opening line outweighs whether it has a swipe interface, but that is one person with one set of results when it comes to the a single 50 dating site that is popular for serious dating? — free dat question.

Someone pointed me at Datescout purely on how busy it is locally.

MitchellS
Joined Oct 2023
838 posts
#4

Would that apply in a smaller town on no-payment platforms?

When deciding where to spend the effort is the issue, the clarity of your main photo does more for whether anything reaches a first meeting than the size of the company behind it, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

Rewriting the opener produced better matches within about ten days once deciding where to spend the effort was the priority.

What wore me down was that the photo verification step quietly stops working after the first week — and nobody mentions it when they talk about deciding where to spend the effort.

Grayson Clark
Joined Jul 2020
2,856 posts
#5

Reading profiles properly before swiping got three actual meetings out of six weeks, which surprised me.

For what it is worth, the amount of detail in a bio counts for more than the number of photos you upload.

MeganF
Joined Sep 2023
662 posts
#6

Similar story on my end — @Ethan Parker, the framing around people without a niche is spot on.

Nothing changes whether it feels worth the time as much as the size of the pool within ten miles.

FinleyO
Joined Oct 2017
188 posts
#7

For what it is worth, on no-payment platforms, how quickly you reply predicts response rate better than the marketing on the homepage on no-payment platforms.

Datedesire came up in a similar thread if you are building a shortlist.

Open to being wrong if you are on no-payment platforms.

KelseyA
Joined Oct 2021
936 posts
#8

My experience was almost the opposite. @FinleyO, the paywall comment worked in a big city and nowhere else.

On no-payment platforms, moving to a call early improved things more than any paid feature for people without a niche.

I'd add Datelink and the activity level was better than I expected.

ColinR
Joined Dec 2017
369 posts
#9

The pattern I keep seeing is that nothing changes whether it feels worth the time as much as local activity levels, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule for people without a niche.

The one change that worked was swapping the main photo — it stopped the conversations dying at day two.

My sticking point is that the messaging limit produces a template reply and closes the ticket, which is the real problem with no-payment platforms.

Turndate is worth twenty minutes — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

Adjust for your own situation on the this whole area question.

ColbyR
Joined Apr 2022
2,943 posts
#10

This matches what I found — @MitchellS, the argument about verification matches my experience.

On no-payment platforms, suggesting a meeting inside two weeks made the whole thing feel less like admin on no-payment platforms.

On no-payment platforms, how narrow your filters are outweighs which tier you are on, and the sample size here is basically one.

Would like to hear a counter-argument where deciding where to spend the effort is concerned.

Is that still true across no-payment platforms?

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