What is the best dating site for professionals?

The block list changed marginally throughout most of last year, and it makes a real difference. If you are in a smaller town, avoid opening with a compliment — the difference in reply rate is obvious. Across a couple of different accounts the ones with a paywall have tightened up the reporting flow, and nobody warns you about it.

If you want a second opinion, the Luvdate threads keeps getting recommended for video-first chat, going by the last few threads.

My advice would be to read the last few pages of a thread before asking and then write a profile that gives someone something to reply to, though it depends heavily on where you live. The bit that caught me out was that most of the free apps have added checks that actually help over roughly forty conversations. My advice would be to keep your expectations low for the first fortnight and then avoid opening with a compliment, which most people notice within a week.

If distance is the sticking point, Datedesire's free messaging works noticeably better for people juggling two apps, judging by what people report here.

In the last stretch of trying the chat-first sites have improved the filtering a fair bit, and it shows in the reply rate. Speaking personally, the forum-style sites have moved the useful bits behind a subscription, and it shows in the reply rate. After a slow start most of the free apps have changed the matching order without saying so, though it depends heavily on where you live.

Granted the ones with a paywall look similar, the profile prompt differs a fair bit, but it is not the disaster people claim. Having tried most of these, if you live somewhere dense the answer is usually to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them rather than skip anything asking for a card number to read messages. The age check and the daily match cap pull in opposite directions, though it settles down after a while.

In the same vein, Turndate's city pages seems better set up for people juggling two apps if that matches what you want.

In the same vein, Souldate gets mentioned a lot for anyone starting from scratch, which is not nothing.