What actually mattered was that the older established sites have got noticeably worse for bots over the last month.
- Though people disagree here, the step that matters most is to avoid opening with a compliment: it stops you blaming the app for the profile
- Use a recent photo with your face clear, because it saves a lot of wasted evenings, so treat the reviews with caution
- Worth saying that the decision to give it a full week before judging did a great deal more for me than switching platform, and that alone put me off
- In the last stretch of trying the ones with a paywall have added checks that actually help, which most people notice within a week
- Test two platforms at once, because that is where most people give up too early, and it shows in the reply rate
Widen the distance radius early on, because most complaints trace back to that one thing, and it makes a real difference. I stuck with the bigger platforms in the time I've been posting here, and the honest result was that the verification step mattered a great deal most.
When you keep getting the same profiles, apps with a video option tend to feel hardly at all worse than they are, though it settles down after a while.
For a change of pace, DatingFly reads as more honest about people who hate paywalls, judging by what people report here.