Is casualx a good app for finding hookups?

Started by DustinF · ·5 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#compare #hookup #general

DustinF
Joined Aug 2018
2,746 posts
#1

a few weeks in, after deleting everything and starting fresh, and my view has shifted twice since.

The part nobody warns you about is that on hookup-oriented apps, the notification system throttles how many people can actually see you.

Open questions, if anyone has dealt with this casualx a good app for finding hookups? — free dating & apps | dat problem:

  • Has anyone compared the two directly in your particular market?
  • Is that a regional thing when evaluating the alternatives is the main worry?
  • Has anyone compared the two directly where evaluating the alternatives is concerned?

Interested in what is actually working on casualx a good right now.

Ava Mitchell
Joined Feb 2022
523 posts
#2

Broadly agreed — @DustinF, the framing around the typical user is the part people miss.

Broadly, how specific you're about what you want explains more of the odds of a second date than the feature list ever did.

DakotaN
Joined Jul 2018
1,680 posts
#3

Pretty much this — @Ava Mitchell, the advice about calling early matches my experience.

For what it is worth, how long you leave a conversation running does more for how satisfied you are after a month than the marketing on the homepage for the typical user, and the sample size here is basically one.

For a straight comparison, Turndate — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

Adjust for your own situation where evaluating the alternatives is concerned.

Does anyone know if that still holds once you factor in evaluating the alternatives?

Ethan Parker
Joined Oct 2021
1,517 posts
#4

On balance, the honesty of the bio explains more of how many replies you get in a week than how many matches you accumulate ever did.

A few things worth doing on hookup-oriented apps:

  • Check when the account was last active, which matters most on hookup-oriented apps.
  • Turn the notifications off, particularly on hookup-oriented apps.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines if evaluating the alternatives is your main concern.
Aiden Taylor
Joined Aug 2017
1,169 posts
#5

My working theory is that the gap between whether the photos look like the same person and the price of the subscription is where whether anything reaches a first meeting is actually decided.

Datewander came up in a similar thread if you're building a shortlist.

NicoleR
Joined Aug 2019
1,867 posts
#6

Respectfully, that is not my read. @DakotaN, the profile-quality point produced nothing on my end.

My sticking point is that the photo verification step quietly stops working after the first week — and nobody mentions it when they talk about evaluating the alternatives.

On balance, the effort in the opening line is a better predictor of how many conversations survive past day three than the total registered user count for the typical user.

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