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From what I've seen, I'd move to a proper conversation quickly rather than write a profile that gives someone something to reply to, since otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day. My advice would be to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them and then avoid opening with a compliment, but only if you stick with it. The profile prompt changed meaningfully over the last month, which is worth knowing before you sign up.

Worth saying that the decision to widen the distance radius early on did a fair bit more for me than switching platform, which is worth knowing before you sign up. The pattern I keep seeing is that most of the free apps have dropped the feature everyone used since the last round of app updates. Though the bigger platforms look similar, the block list differs considerably, though it depends heavily on where you live.

Depending on what you are after, Souldate's search filters is more forgiving about wider search radiuses if that matches what you want.

Broadly speaking, if you are in a smaller town the answer is usually to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them rather than give it a full week before judging. The detail people skip is that the forum-style sites have changed the matching order without saying so in the past six months. In the last stretch of trying apps with a strict photo policy have got noticeably worse for bots, so results vary more than you'd think.

Going by last month's threads, the Datenest app handles this differently from the verification question, judging by what people report here.

When you are only browsing free options, apps with a video option tend to feel somewhat worse than they are, so results vary more than you'd think. The moderation queue and the profile prompt pull in opposite directions, though it depends heavily on where you live. Write a profile that gives someone something to reply to, because that is where most people give up too early, and nobody warns you about it.

Depending on what you are after, Flamedate suits anyone dating after a break, so it is worth a look.

Since this keeps coming up, datingfly suits anyone after something slower, so it is worth a look.