How do I get more matches on a dating app nearby?

Posting this after an embarrassing amount of time on how to get more matches on a dating app nearby? — local & internationa — the consensus online looks nothing like my experience.

Where it falls down is that the reporting tool turns into a shop window the moment someone matches, especially once how you get surfaced comes into it.

Picking one platform and sticking with it turned it from a chore into something workable, which surprised me.

Direct experience of local & internationa is what I'm after.

On the apps, the size of the pool within ten miles has a bigger effect on match quality than which tier you're on on the apps.

Flamedate is worth twenty minutes if you want something to compare against.

Strongly agree — @CooperS, the paywall comment is the whole thing really.

As far as I can tell, when how you get surfaced is the issue, the amount of detail in a bio beats the size of the company behind it, though it varies enormously by city.

For anyone starting out, swapping the main photo was the only change that showed up in the numbers.

Similar story on my end — @HannahB, the bit about local activity is the one I'd emphasise.

What nobody mentions is that for anyone starting out, the discovery feed collapses once you move outside a major city.

Lines up with mine — @Zoey Clark, the paywall comment deserves more attention than it gets.

The part nobody warns you about is that for anyone starting out, the notification system shows the same faces on a loop.

The one change that worked was cutting the match list right down — it turned it from a chore into something workable.

Would that apply in a smaller town for most of us?

For anyone starting out, reading profiles properly before swiping changed the kind of people who replied.

Something worth knowing: on the apps, how consistently you show up outweighs which platform you picked for anyone starting out.

Try EZHookups alongside whatever else you are testing — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

Whether you actually read the profile is a better predictor of match quality than which platform you picked.

Interested if others landed elsewhere if you are on the apps.