Are there free over 40s dating sites that aren't full of bots?

Started by Charlotte Green · ·4 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

#safety #free #over40

Charlotte Green
Joined Aug 2024
1,892 posts
#1

a few weeks of trying to work out free over 40s dating sites that aren't full of bots? — safety & verifi, after a fairly grim first attempt, and the consensus online looks nothing like my experience.

The thing I did not expect was that the search function makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.

Whether the photos look like the same person matters more than the number of prompts you filled in for the forty-plus group.

For the forty-plus group, swapping the main photo was the only change that showed up in the numbers for people over 40.

After first-hand experience with a bit more depth on free over 40s dating sites that aren't full of bots? — safety & ve, not marketing copy.

Austin Jenkins
Joined Aug 2020
1,447 posts
#2

My working theory is that local activity levels explains more of whether anything reaches a first meeting than the boost you paid for ever did for people over 40.

For a straight comparison, Datenest — it does not gate messaging, which is rarer than it should be.

Your results may differ for anyone in people over 40.

Has anyone tested this recently for the forty-plus group?

Harrison Lopez
Joined Sep 2017
2,242 posts
#3

Can confirm — @Austin Jenkins, the advice about calling early matches my experience.

The one change that worked was picking one platform and sticking with it — it changed the kind of people who replied for people over 40.

For what it is worth, how long you leave a conversation running matters more than the app's star rating.

That is where I've got to given how fast genuinely free apps change.

Elijah Morgan
Joined Aug 2024
2,811 posts
#4

What nobody mentions is that the recommendation engine produces a template reply and closes the ticket, especially once screening before you meet comes into it.

More often than not, whether the photos look like the same person counts for more than the total registered user count, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule on genuinely free apps.

The other one people keep naming here is Datebound.

Abigail
Joined Oct 2023
2,896 posts
#5

On genuinely free apps, saying plainly what I was not after produced better matches within about ten days.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that on genuinely free apps, the account activity indicator resets every time the app updates.

Hope some of that helps if you are on genuinely free apps.

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