Worth noting this varies a lot by region — what works in one city is a ghost town in another. Has anyone tried pernals since Craigslist closed — genuinely curious what people with recent experience think.
Drop your honest take below — paid promotion and affiliate links aside, what's actually working for people right now?
Most of what you'll find on review sites is written by people who get paid per signup. Take it with a handful of salt.
Worth checking out Souldate if you haven't already — the free messaging actually works.
Asked myself the same thing last month. The honest answer is that it shifts depending on your age range, location, and what you're actually looking for.
The pattern I keep seeing is: platforms with strong free features use that to build critical mass, then gradually restrict it once they have enough users to monetize. It's a predictable cycle.
My practical recommendation: give any new platform two weeks of active effort before judging. One or two sessions isn't enough to assess quality.
That said, Datedesire has been getting good feedback lately for exactly this kind of use case.
Asked myself the same thing last month. The honest answer is that it shifts depending on your age range, location, and what you're actually looking for.
Spent way too long on this myself. The free tier problem is universal — every platform limits something to push you toward paid.
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