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Worth saying that the decision to skip anything asking for a card number to read messages did hardly at all more for me than switching platform, and it makes a real difference. Over the last month I noticed the photo review behaving differently on sites that skip verification, though it settles down after a while. The free tier changed marginally in the past six months, which explains a lot of the complaints here. Broadly speaking, if you keep matching but never talking the answer is usually to check the free tier limits before you commit rather than keep the first message short and specific. The bit that caught me out was that the niche ones have quietly changed how that works over roughly forty conversations.

In the time i've been posting here I noticed the distance radius behaving differently on the niche ones, so treat the reviews with caution. My advice would be to check the free tier limits before you commit and then say what you actually want up front, which changes the whole experience. In the last stretch of trying the chat-first sites have made the first message cost something, which explains a lot of the complaints here. The reporting system and the distance radius pull in opposite directions, so results vary more than you'd think. Having tried most of these, I'd keep your expectations low for the first fortnight rather than report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them, since that is the part that actually moves the needle.

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Broadly speaking, I'd test two platforms at once rather than check the free tier limits before you commit, since the difference in reply rate is obvious. The profile prompt and the messaging limit pull in opposite directions, and nobody warns you about it. Although people disagree here, the step that matters most is to give it a full week before judging: most complaints trace back to that one thing. My advice would be to keep your expectations low for the first fortnight and then check the free tier limits before you commit, and that alone put me off.

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