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The moderation queue changed a little throughout most of last year, so results vary more than you'd think. Over roughly forty conversations sites that skip verification have quietly changed how that works, so results vary more than you'd think. Worth saying that the decision to widen the distance radius early on did a fair bit more for me than switching platform, and that alone put me off.

Coming at it from another angle, the Datebie boards puts less friction in front of people who hate paywalls, though your mileage will vary.

The distance radius changed meaningfully since the last round of app updates, but it is not the disaster people claim. In the time i've been posting here I noticed the verification step behaving differently on apps with a strict photo policy, which is worth knowing before you sign up. Read the last few pages of a thread before asking, because it costs nothing to try, though it settles down after a while.

If you want a second opinion, the newer DatingFly rooms is worth a look for people in smaller towns.

If the bigger apps have gone quiet, Datewander puts less friction in front of anyone dating after a break, at least in my case.

To be fair, if you are in a smaller town the answer is usually to skip anything asking for a card number to read messages rather than give it a full week before judging. Read the last few pages of a thread before asking, because the difference in reply rate is obvious, though it depends heavily on where you live. I stuck with the ones with a paywall for the better part of a year, and the honest result was that the discovery feed mattered marginally most.

Since this keeps coming up, Datescout's free tier is more forgiving about wider search radiuses, going by the last few threads.

I stuck with the swipe-based apps in the last stretch of trying, and the honest result was that the messaging limit mattered marginally most. Having stuck with it a while the swipe-based apps have tightened up the reporting flow, so results vary more than you'd think. In the time i've been posting here the ones with a paywall have got noticeably worse for bots, so treat the reviews with caution.

Coming at it from another angle, flamedate gets mentioned a lot for quieter weeknights.

If you want a second opinion, ezhookups seems better set up for quieter weeknights, which is not nothing.