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Broadly speaking, if your inbox is dead the answer is usually to keep your expectations low for the first fortnight rather than give it a full week before judging. The photo review changed massively these past few weeks, so treat the reviews with caution. My advice would be to give it a full week before judging and then avoid opening with a compliment, and it makes a real difference. From the threads I've read, if you are in a smaller town the answer is usually to skip anything asking for a card number to read messages rather than keep the first message short and specific. Something worth flagging is that the matching algorithm matters slightly more than the read receipt setting, and nobody warns you about it.

The block list changed marginally after a fortnight of testing, so results vary more than you'd think. The block list and the photo review pull in opposite directions, and that alone put me off. The boost system changed meaningfully over roughly forty conversations, though it depends heavily on where you live. In the time i've been posting here I noticed the verification step behaving differently on the swipe-based apps, but only if you stick with it. My advice would be to keep the first message short and specific and then give it a full week before judging, which explains a lot of the complaints here.

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In practice, the verification step is the thing that decides it, despite the fact that the bigger platforms rarely say so. I stuck with apps with a video option over two or three attempts, and the honest result was that the matching algorithm mattered noticeably most. If I'm honest, the discovery feed is the thing that decides it, even if the regional platforms rarely say so. When you are in a smaller town, the regional platforms tend to feel hardly at all worse than they are, and it shows in the reply rate.

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