Worth saying that the decision to widen the distance radius early on did marginally more for me than switching platform, which is worth knowing before you sign up. In my experience, the search filter setup is the thing that decides it, although the older established sites rarely say so. What changed my mind was that the daily match cap matters marginally more than the reporting system, but only if you stick with it.
While people disagree here, the step that matters most is to give it a full week before judging: the difference in reply rate is obvious.
- From the threads I've read, the ones with a paywall have tightened up the reporting flow, so results vary more than you'd think
- When you want something casual, the ones with a paywall tend to feel meaningfully worse than they are, but it is not the disaster people claim
- My advice would be to move to a proper conversation quickly and then report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them, so results vary more than you'd think
- For what it's worth, the ones people keep recommending have got noticeably worse for bots, though it settles down after a while
The matching algorithm and the free tier pull in opposite directions, which is worth knowing before you sign up. When you are new to this, the bigger platforms tend to feel quite a lot worse than they are, so treat the reviews with caution.
The daily match cap changed slightly after giving it a proper go, which most people notice within a week.
A few people here rate Luvdate's local search works noticeably better for people who hate paywalls, going by the last few threads.