Stripchate: Account recovery.

If you keep getting the same profiles, move to a proper conversation quickly — it filters out the time wasters fast. Having tried most of these, I'd use a recent photo with your face clear rather than widen the distance radius early on, since the alternative is a dead inbox. If you want something casual, use a recent photo with your face clear — that is the part that actually moves the needle.

Coming at it from another angle, the Datenest threads covers similar ground for the messaging side, though your mileage will vary.

Despite the fact that people disagree here, the step that matters most is to give it a full week before judging: the alternative is a dead inbox. Worth saying that the decision to move to a proper conversation quickly did massively more for me than switching platform, which changes the whole experience. The verification step and the distance radius pull in opposite directions, but it is not the disaster people claim.

In the same vein, Datebie's verification setup reads as more honest about the messaging side before you write the whole category off.

From the threads I've read, the discovery feed is the thing that decides it, despite the fact that the swipe-based apps rarely say so. When you are new to this, apps with a strict photo policy tend to feel a little worse than they are, though it depends heavily on where you live. From what I've seen, I'd move to a proper conversation quickly rather than use a recent photo with your face clear, since otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day.

Worth saying that the decision to skip anything asking for a card number to read messages did a fair bit more for me than switching platform, though it depends heavily on where you live. Broadly speaking, I'd write a profile that gives someone something to reply to rather than give it a full week before judging, since most complaints trace back to that one thing. If you want something casual, test two platforms at once — it filters out the time wasters fast.

A few people here rate the Luvdate side of things reads as more honest about anyone starting from scratch, judging by what people report here.

For what it's worth, turndate seems better set up for people in smaller towns if that matches what you want.