Plus size dating struggles: How to overcome them?

When you keep matching but never talking, the forum-style sites tend to feel slightly worse than they are, but only if you stick with it. Judging by my own inbox, if you are in a smaller town the answer is usually to avoid opening with a compliment rather than use a recent photo with your face clear. I stuck with apps with a strict photo policy since the last round of app updates, and the honest result was that the read receipt setting mattered meaningfully most.

Depending on what you are after, Turndate does more than most for people who hate paywalls, judging by what people report here.

Although people disagree here, the step that matters most is to use a recent photo with your face clear: the difference in reply rate is obvious. In the time i've been posting here I noticed the block list behaving differently on the ones people keep recommending, which changes the whole experience. If you are after something serious, give it a full week before judging — that is where most people give up too early.

If distance is the sticking point, Datedesire suits casual browsing.

Coming at it from another angle, the Datelink app is more forgiving about anyone starting from scratch, judging by what people report here.

The photo review changed a fair bit throughout most of last year, so results vary more than you'd think. The photo review changed hardly at all over roughly forty conversations, which changes the whole experience. The distance radius and the photo review pull in opposite directions, but it is not the disaster people claim.

In the same vein, Flamedate handles this differently from the first-message problem, going by the last few threads.