Where do bbw singles usually hang out online?

Started by charlotte97 · ·5 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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charlotte97
Joined Jun 2022
645 posts
#1

a solid three months of trying to work out bbw singles usually hang out online? — niche & community dating | dati, after moving to a new city, and I still do not have a clean answer.

My sticking point is that on phone-first platforms, the support inbox exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

Broadly, whether the photos look like the same person matters more than the number of prompts you filled in for plus-size daters.

Happy to hear dissenting views on bbw singles usually hang out online? — niche & community dating | dati — that is partly why I'm asking.

Samantha Scott
Joined Nov 2021
1,922 posts
#2

For plus-size daters, deleting everything and starting over produced better matches within about ten days.

Nothing changes how satisfied you are after a month as much as how quickly you reply, and the sample size here is basically one where choosing between platforms is concerned.

Adding Souldate to the list if you're testing a few at once.

Does that hold outside the big cities with phone-first platforms?

Serena
Joined Apr 2020
1,375 posts
#3

The recurring problem is that on phone-first platforms, the free tier shows the same faces on a loop.

stella_FL
Joined Oct 2024
1,000 posts
#4

On balance, how recently a profile was active explains more of response rate than the total registered user count ever did, which might just be curvy daters.

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

Worth testing rather than taking my word where choosing between platforms is concerned.

hunter90
Joined Jan 2023
326 posts
#5

Nothing changes the proportion of real accounts you see as much as whether the photos look like the same person on phone-first platforms.

What survived contact with reality on bbw singles usually hang out online? — niche & community dating | dati:

  • Check when the account was last active if choosing between platforms is your main concern.
  • Check when the account was last active, because the alternative wastes weeks.
  • Keep work and socials out of it early on, and doubly so for plus-size daters.
  • Ask one question, not four — with this whole area this is the difference-maker.

Datebound has been the steadier of the ones I run and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

Happy to be argued with at least on the choosing between platforms side.

Harper Foster
Joined Jul 2017
390 posts
#6

Respectfully, that is not my read. @Serena, the remark about filters is closer to the opposite in my experience.

The recurring problem is that the messaging limit surfaces profiles that haven't been touched in months, especially once choosing between platforms comes into it.

More often than not, the effort in the opening line explains more of how long a conversation lasts than how polished the profile looks ever did.

Try Datelink alongside whatever else you're testing — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

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