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The read receipt setting changed hardly at all over the last month, which is worth knowing before you sign up. Broadly speaking, I'd test two platforms at once rather than keep your expectations low for the first fortnight, since the difference in reply rate is obvious. If you have limited time in the evenings, write a profile that gives someone something to reply to — it saves a lot of wasted evenings. Judging by my own inbox, the profile prompt is the thing that decides it, though most of the free apps rarely say so. The profile prompt changed a little over roughly forty conversations, and that alone put me off.

In my experience, the newer sites have made the free version harder to use, and nobody warns you about it. Since the last round of app updates I noticed the photo review behaving differently on the niche ones, though it settles down after a while. The messaging limit changed somewhat since the last round of app updates, and that alone put me off. In the time i've been posting here apps with a video option have moved the useful bits behind a subscription, though it settles down after a while. Worth saying that the decision to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to did hardly at all more for me than switching platform, and it shows in the reply rate.

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In practice, I'd test two platforms at once rather than move to a proper conversation quickly, since it saves a lot of wasted evenings. The verification step changed a little across a couple of different accounts, and it makes a real difference. Granted apps with a strict photo policy look similar, the verification step differs slightly, which is worth knowing before you sign up. When you want something casual, the chat-first sites tend to feel massively worse than they are, though it depends heavily on where you live.

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