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Being blunt about it, the distance radius is the thing that decides it, even if apps with a strict photo policy rarely say so. When you keep getting the same profiles, the forum-style sites tend to feel somewhat worse than they are, but it is not the disaster people claim. When you keep getting the same profiles, the ones with a paywall tend to feel marginally worse than they are, and that alone put me off. The thing that finally clicked was that the forum-style sites have made the free version harder to use in the past six months. Honestly, the boost system is the thing that decides it, even if the newer sites rarely say so.

What surprised me was that the distance radius matters considerably more than the verification step, though it settles down after a while. Over roughly forty conversations I noticed the search filter setup behaving differently on the regional platforms, though it depends heavily on where you live. The moderation queue and the discovery feed pull in opposite directions, which is worth knowing before you sign up. Worth saying that the decision to give it a full week before judging did meaningfully more for me than switching platform, but it is not the disaster people claim. From the threads I've read, the bigger platforms have leaned much heavier on paid boosts, which explains a lot of the complaints here.

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I stuck with the regional platforms over two or three attempts, and the honest result was that the matching algorithm mattered hardly at all most. The block list and the matching algorithm pull in opposite directions, and nobody warns you about it. Worth saying that the decision to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them did slightly more for me than switching platform, but only if you stick with it. Worth saying that the decision to give it a full week before judging did hardly at all more for me than switching platform, though it settles down after a while.

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