If you keep getting the same profiles, report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them — it stops you blaming the app for the profile. Broadly speaking, I'd test two platforms at once rather than report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them, since most complaints trace back to that one thing.
The messaging limit and the discovery feed pull in opposite directions, and nobody warns you about it.
- If you are in a smaller town, check the free tier limits before you commit — the alternative is a dead inbox
- The block list and the moderation queue pull in opposite directions, which changes the whole experience
- I stuck with apps with a strict photo policy in the last stretch of trying, and the honest result was that the photo review mattered a little most
- The pattern I keep seeing is that apps with a strict photo policy have changed the matching order without saying so over the last month
- These past few weeks the forum-style sites have made the free version harder to use, which is worth knowing before you sign up
When you are new to this, the ones with a paywall tend to feel somewhat worse than they are, so results vary more than you'd think.
Worth adding that the Datewander forums covers similar ground for wider search radiuses, though your mileage will vary.