How do you set up a gay page video chat profile?

Been chewing on how to set up a gay page video chat profile? — profiles & photos | dat for about four months because the alternative was doing nothing, and the pattern got clearer than expected.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that for gay men, the onboarding boost resets every time the app updates.

Broadly, how consistently you show up outweighs how long you have had the account for gay men.

The parts of how to set up a gay page video chat profile? — profiles & photos | dat I cannot resolve on my own:

• Does that change much across the apps?
• Is that a regional thing outside the region you set your filters to?
• Has anyone compared the two directly where image choice is concerned?

Suggesting a meeting inside two weeks changed the kind of people who replied, which surprised me on the apps.

Direct experience of how to set up a gay page video chat profile? — profiles & photos | dat is what I am after.

Not sure I agree. @Penelope Garcia, the point about image choice didn't hold for me.

When image choice is the issue, how often you open the app counts for more than the feature list, though a friend had the reverse experience for men seeking men.

The one change that worked was dropping the filters — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks for gay men.

For gay men, cutting the match list right down cut the wasted time by more than half.

Something worth knowing: for men seeking men, whether an account has been verified tends to decide match quality, though your area changes the picture completely.

Short version for gay men:

• Turn the notifications off, because nothing else moves the numbers as reliably.
• Read the profile before you send anything, which matters most on the apps.
• Read the profile before you send anything — with that side of it this is the difference-maker.
• Reverse-image-search anything too polished, which matters most on the apps.

Seconding this — @Sophia Turner, the point about image choice is exactly right.

The recurring problem is that the notification system produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

As far as I can tell, when image choice is the issue, local activity levels has a bigger effect on whether anything reaches a first meeting than the number of prompts you filled in, and the sample size here is basically one in the this how to set up a gay page video chat profile? — profiles & photos | problem context.

Boiled down, for anyone weighing up this how to set up a gay page video chat profile? — profiles & photos | problem:

• Screenshot anything odd before blocking, which matters most on the apps.
• Keep work and socials out of it early on, which matters most on the apps.
• Keep the first meeting short and public if image choice is your main concern.

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

Has anyone tested this recently for men seeking men?

My sticking point is that on the apps, the recommendation engine turns into a shop window the moment someone matches.

In practice, whether it has a swipe interface gets the credit but the willingness to suggest meeting early does the work.

On that point, Datelink if you want something to compare against.

I want to gently disagree. @TylerK, the framing around gay men reads as survivorship bias to me.

Picking one platform and sticking with it made a bigger difference than switching platforms.

What actually frustrates me is that the onboarding boost quietly stops working after the first week.

Does anyone know if that still holds when image choice is the main worry?

The number of photos you upload gets the credit but whether you actually read the profile does the work, though it varies enormously by city.

Is that worth the time investment once you factor in image choice?

Cutting the match list right down made a bigger difference than switching platforms and nothing else came close.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the notification system ignores about half of what you set, especially once image choice comes into it.

More often than not, how consistently you show up has a bigger effect on the proportion of real accounts you see than the feature list for gay men.

More often than not, how specific you're about what you want matters more than the size of the company behind it for gay men, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

Deleting everything and starting over stopped the conversations dying at day two for men seeking men.

Does that change much across the apps?

My experience was almost the opposite. @annaK, the point about image choice didn't hold for me.

The one change that worked was answering within a day — it improved things more than any paid feature.