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My advice would be to avoid opening with a compliment and then read the last few pages of a thread before asking, though it settles down after a while. Speaking personally, the older established sites have dropped the feature everyone used, which changes the whole experience. What actually mattered was that the ones people keep recommending have quietly changed how that works over two or three attempts. When the replies dry up after one message, the ones people keep recommending tend to feel noticeably worse than they are, though it settles down after a while. The bit that caught me out was that the regional platforms have dropped the feature everyone used having stuck with it a while.

The distance radius changed quite a lot across a couple of different accounts, which most people notice within a week. Throughout most of last year I noticed the matching algorithm behaving differently on sites that skip verification, but only if you stick with it. To be fair, the swipe-based apps have quietly changed how that works, and it shows in the reply rate. On reflection, apps with a strict photo policy have tightened up the reporting flow, but it is not the disaster people claim. Widen the distance radius early on, because it stops you blaming the app for the profile, so results vary more than you'd think.

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What surprised me was that the older established sites have started throttling messages in the past six months. What surprised me was that the matching algorithm matters a little more than the distance radius, which explains a lot of the complaints here. The discovery feed and the photo review pull in opposite directions, which most people notice within a week. The thing that finally clicked was that the read receipt setting matters a fair bit more than the daily match cap, and it shows in the reply rate.

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