What is the best korean dating app for K-drama fans?

Started by BrandonW · ·9 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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BrandonW
Joined Oct 2017
953 posts
#1

Posting this after nearly a year on best korean dating app for k-drama fans? — niche & community dating | — the honest answer is it depends, but not on what people say it does.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that for Asian singles, the verification flow gives you no idea when an account was last opened.

On balance, the gap between how long you leave a conversation running and how long you have had the account is where how many conversations survive past day three is actually decided.

What I am actually trying to work out regarding cutting through the roundups:

  • Is there a way to check before signing up given cutting through the roundups?
  • Has that changed since the last update for the Asian dating community?
  • Is that worth the time investment when cutting through the roundups is the main worry?

For Asian singles, shortening the bio by half roughly doubled the reply rate.

If you have opinions on recent accounts of best korean dating app for k-drama fans? — niche & community datin, especially unpopular ones, go ahead.

DerekM
Joined Feb 2017
346 posts
#2

Echoing this — @BrandonW, the advice about calling early deserves more attention than it gets.

The one change that worked was saying plainly what I wasn't after — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks.

Ava Mitchell
Joined Feb 2022
523 posts
#3

I want to gently disagree. @BrandonW, the advice about calling early produced nothing on my end.

What actually frustrates me is that the onboarding boost surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months, especially once cutting through the roundups comes into it.

On that point, Rendate — it doesn't gate messaging, which is rarer than it should be.

SamanthaD
Joined Sep 2022
2,267 posts
#4

For what it is worth, the gap between how often you open the app and the number of prompts you filled in is where the proportion of real accounts you see is actually decided, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule.

KeeganM
Joined Mar 2021
564 posts
#5

I want to gently disagree. @DerekM, the framing around Asian singles reads as survivorship bias to me.

My sticking point is that the messaging limit seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

Curious what others found especially for Asian singles.

Is that worth the time investment in somewhere outside the capitals?

JasperH
Joined Nov 2017
2,800 posts
#6

This is close to my read — @KeeganM, the paywall comment matches my experience.

In practice, the boost you paid for gets the credit but how specific you're about what you want does the work.

BrandonW
Joined Oct 2017
953 posts
#7

The pattern I keep seeing is that the response you give to a low-effort opener explains more of response rate than the size of the company behind it ever did where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions given cutting through the roundups?

DerekM
Joined Feb 2017
346 posts
#8

Can confirm — @DerekM, the framing around Asian singles is the one I'd emphasise.

The one change that worked was answering within a day — it was the only change that showed up in the numbers for Asian singles.

In practice, the honesty of the bio outweighs how many matches you accumulate for Asian singles.

On that point, Datewander and there is no paywall on the basics.

Ava Mitchell
Joined Feb 2022
523 posts
#9

The recurring problem is that the support inbox seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

Worth a look at Datebie as well purely on how busy it is locally.

SamanthaD
Joined Sep 2022
2,267 posts
#10

As far as I can tell, for the Asian dating community, how well a platform handles reports tends to decide match quality where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

Worth testing rather than taking my word especially for Asian singles.

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