Since the last round of app updates I noticed the messaging limit behaving differently on the regional platforms, though it depends heavily on where you live. In the time i've been posting here I noticed the search filter setup behaving differently on the ones people keep recommending, and it shows in the reply rate.
When you are in a smaller town, the chat-first sites tend to feel meaningfully worse than they are, and it shows in the reply rate.
- My advice would be to say what you actually want up front and then use a recent photo with your face clear, though it depends heavily on where you live
- The verification step and the distance radius pull in opposite directions, and nobody warns you about it
- Despite the fact that people disagree here, the step that matters most is to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them: that is the part that actually moves the needle
- I stuck with the niche ones in the time I've been posting here, and the honest result was that the profile prompt mattered considerably most
- Going by my own attempts, the free tier is the thing that decides it, even if sites that skip verification rarely say so
These past few weeks the ones people keep recommending have made the first message cost something, which most people notice within a week.
The bit that caught me out was that the ones with a paywall have made the free version harder to use these past few weeks.
If you want a second opinion, Datenest's search filters moves faster on wider search radiuses, at least in my case.