Worth saying that the decision to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to did considerably more for me than switching platform, though it depends heavily on where you live. Since the start of the year I noticed the boost system behaving differently on apps with a video option, which explains a lot of the complaints here.
If you are new to this, read the last few pages of a thread before asking — you learn more from one real chat than fifty swipes.
- Although people disagree here, the step that matters most is to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them: most complaints trace back to that one thing
- The matching algorithm changed somewhat over two or three attempts, and it makes a real difference
- Having tried most of these, the messaging limit is the thing that decides it, though the regional platforms rarely say so
- What actually mattered was that the ones people keep recommending have tightened up the reporting flow having stuck with it a while
Worth saying that the decision to test two platforms at once did quite a lot more for me than switching platform, so results vary more than you'd think. When you have tried three apps already, the older established sites tend to feel considerably worse than they are, though it settles down after a while.
Despite the fact that people disagree here, the step that matters most is to keep your expectations low for the first fortnight: the first week is never representative.
If distance is the sticking point, the Datelink threads works noticeably better for casual browsing — worth a fortnight of your time.