The daily match cap and the distance radius pull in opposite directions, though it depends heavily on where you live. When you keep matching but never talking, the swipe-based apps tend to feel quite a lot worse than they are, but it is not the disaster people claim. For the better part of a year the swipe-based apps have stopped showing profiles past a certain distance, but only if you stick with it.
Having tried most of these, I'd widen the distance radius early on rather than say what you actually want up front, since the alternative is a dead inbox.
- Widen the distance radius early on, because you learn more from one real chat than fifty swipes, which explains a lot of the complaints here
- What actually mattered was that the moderation queue matters considerably more than the age check, and nobody warns you about it
- The boost system and the discovery feed pull in opposite directions, but only if you stick with it
- If you want something casual, widen the distance radius early on — it costs nothing to try
Worth saying that the decision to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to did noticeably more for me than switching platform, and it shows in the reply rate. Although people disagree here, the step that matters most is to keep the first message short and specific: that is where most people give up too early.