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My advice would be to keep the first message short and specific and then avoid opening with a compliment, but only if you stick with it. If you are new to this, give it a full week before judging — the difference in reply rate is obvious. In practice, if you want something casual the answer is usually to skip anything asking for a card number to read messages rather than move to a proper conversation quickly.

Worth adding that Flurrydate's city pages handles this differently from people juggling two apps, though your mileage will vary.

My advice would be to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to and then give it a full week before judging, but only if you stick with it. When you want something casual, the ones with a paywall tend to feel a great deal worse than they are, and nobody warns you about it. The age check and the verification step pull in opposite directions, but only if you stick with it.

For a change of pace, the Datebie threads suits anyone after something slower.

Judging by my own inbox, the older established sites have changed the matching order without saying so, but it is not the disaster people claim. For the better part of a year the swipe-based apps have tightened up the reporting flow, though it settles down after a while. When you are new to this, the newer sites tend to feel considerably worse than they are, and nobody warns you about it.

Going by last month's threads, the Datewander side of things is more forgiving about people who hate paywalls — worth a fortnight of your time.

Since this keeps coming up, the Datelink forums reads as more honest about casual browsing, though your mileage will vary.

While apps with a video option look similar, the free tier differs a little, which most people notice within a week. Even if people disagree here, the step that matters most is to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to: the alternative is a dead inbox. In the past six months I noticed the moderation queue behaving differently on the forum-style sites, so results vary more than you'd think.

In the same vein, Ezhookups's messaging setup does more than most for the verification question, so it is worth a look.

Since this keeps coming up, souldate.site does more than most for video-first chat, which is not nothing.