Has anyone tried the caribbean cupid dating site for international dating?

Started by LandonH · ·10 replies ·Local & International

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LandonH
Joined Feb 2019
2,563 posts
#1

Posting this after a solid three months on tried the caribbean cupid dating site for international dating? — loca — the picture is messier than people admit.

Where it falls down is that the onboarding boost shows the same faces on a loop.

Interested in what is actually working on current experience with tried the caribbean cupid dating site for international dating? — loca right now.

KevinM
Joined Feb 2023
1,936 posts
#2

That isn't how it went for me. @LandonH, the note on dating sites didn't hold for me.

The recurring problem is that the free tier exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade — and nobody mentions it when they talk about cutting through the roundups.

The quality of your first message outweighs the number of prompts you filled in for most people.

Would like to hear a counter-argument especially for people in the middle of the pack.

Does anyone know if that still holds if you are dealing with cutting through the roundups?

Riley Robinson
Joined Jan 2021
527 posts
#3

Setting fixed hours for it changed the kind of people who replied, which surprised me once cutting through the roundups was the priority.

Broadly, how often you open the app explains more of whether it feels worth the time than the size of the company behind it ever did for most people.

A few things worth doing on dating sites:

  • Check when the account was last active, because the platforms won't do it for you.
  • Check when the account was last active, especially for people in the middle of the pack.
  • Ask one question, not four, which matters most on dating sites.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one, and doubly so for people in the middle of the pack.
  • Turn the notifications off — it is the single strongest signal you control.
Olivia Hayes
Joined Oct 2019
1,607 posts
#4

This is close to my read — @KevinM, the paywall comment held up in my case too.

In practice, the app's overall download figures gets the credit but how often you open the app does the work, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule.

Does anyone know if that still holds for people in the middle of the pack?

Worth running Flurrydate in parallel for a couple of weeks.

MonicaS
Joined Aug 2023
1,379 posts
#5

Opposite for me, oddly. @Riley Robinson, the point about cutting through the roundups worked in a big city and nowhere else.

Where it falls down is that for people in the middle of the pack, the messaging limit makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.

How consistently you show up explains more of match quality than the feature list ever did on dating sites.

CameronL
Joined Aug 2022
1,941 posts
#6

Can confirm — @Riley Robinson, the argument about verification is exactly right.

What actually frustrates me is that on dating sites, the search function quietly stops working after the first week.

SeanO
Joined Jul 2020
337 posts
#7

Pretty much this — @LandonH, the profile-quality point is underrated.

What nobody mentions is that for people in the middle of the pack, the account activity indicator treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion.

More often than not, for most people, how well a platform handles reports tends to decide how many replies you get in a week where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

For most people, the shortlist:

  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished — with that side of it this is the difference-maker.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished, especially for people in the middle of the pack.
  • Keep the first meeting short and public, especially for people in the middle of the pack.
  • Write the bio for one person, not everyone, especially for people in the middle of the pack.
Logan Wilson
Joined May 2017
798 posts
#8

In practice, whether an account has been verified is a better predictor of whether it feels worth the time than whether it has a swipe interface.

Worth a look at Turndate as well and the activity level was better than I expected.

Has anyone had the reverse happen if you are dealing with cutting through the roundups?

QuinnB
Joined Jan 2023
220 posts
#9

For people in the middle of the pack, dropping the filters changed the kind of people who replied.

For what it is worth, for most people, the clarity of your main photo tends to decide response rate for people in the middle of the pack.

ZachW
Joined Dec 2023
2,056 posts
#10

In practice, how long you leave a conversation running is a better predictor of how many conversations survive past day three than the app's overall download figures.

That is my read, not gospel given how fast dating sites change.

TimothyE
Joined Feb 2018
2,965 posts
#11

The detail that ruins it is that the free tier produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

Suggesting a meeting inside two weeks got three actual meetings out of six weeks.

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