How do the bagels dating app notifications work?

I started looking at bagels dating app notifications work? — free dating & apps | datingfly a solid three months ago out of curiosity more than anything, and the picture is messier than people admit.

Where it falls down is that the discovery feed ignores about half of what you set.

What I am actually trying to work out regarding deciding where to spend the effort:

• Would that apply in a smaller town for anyone starting out?
• Does anyone know if that still holds for anyone weighing up the question?
• Does that change much on genuinely free apps?
• Does that change much outside the area you actually search in?
• Has anyone found the opposite when you factor in this whole area?

Direct experience of bagels dating app notifications work? — free dating & apps | datingfly is what I'm after.

I'd frame that differently. @SophieR, the argument about verification reads as survivorship bias to me.

My working theory is that how narrow your filters are is a better predictor of how satisfied you are after a month than which tier you are on.

Adding Datebie to the list — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

Does anyone know if that still holds for anyone in the average user?

What nobody mentions is that the free tier gives you no idea when an account was last opened, which is the real problem with genuinely free apps.

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions in the area you actually search in?

If you want something to compare against, Datebound is free to browse and message.

Same experience here — @SophieR, the argument about verification is underrated.

On genuinely free apps, how long you leave a conversation running predicts how long a conversation lasts better than the app's star rating.

In practice, how many matches you accumulate gets the credit but how narrow your filters are does the work on genuinely free apps.

What I would tell someone starting on bagels dating app notifications work? — free dating & apps | datin:

• Put something concrete in the opener, especially for anyone starting out.
• Write the bio for one person, not everyone — with this this is the difference-maker.
• Move to a voice or video call early, especially for anyone starting out.