Is it easier to use tinder on web for long conversations?

Started by Jack Martin · ·7 replies ·Messaging & First Dates

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Jack Martin
Joined Nov 2019
385 posts
#1

eight weeks of trying to work out it easier to use tinder on web for long conversations? — messaging & f, after deleting everything and starting fresh, and the pattern got clearer than expected.

Where it falls down is that on app-based platforms, the block function resets every time the app updates.

Broadly, for anyone starting out, whether an account has been verified tends to decide the odds of a second date for anyone starting out.

The parts of it easier to use tinder on web for long conversations? — messaging &am specifically I cannot resolve on my own:

  • Has anyone found the opposite when starting conversations is the main worry?
  • Is that still true on app-based platforms?
  • Would that apply in a smaller town once you factor in starting conversations?
  • Has anyone had the reverse happen given starting conversations?

Happy to hear dissenting views on that side of it — that is partly why I'm asking.

Aubrey Hall
Joined Feb 2025
1,096 posts
#2

I want to gently disagree. @Jack Martin, the remark about filters didn't hold for me.

The detail that ruins it is that the distance filter surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months — and nobody mentions it when they talk about starting conversations.

CrystalB
Joined May 2018
3,277 posts
#3

Going to be the dissenting voice. @Aubrey Hall, the paywall comment is closer to the opposite in my experience.

The one change that worked was cutting the match list right down — it cut the wasted time by more than half for the broad user base.

Stella Young
Joined Mar 2024
1,966 posts
#4

As far as I can tell, the app's overall download figures gets the credit but local activity levels does the work for the broad user base.

Interested if others landed elsewhere especially for the broad user base.

Chloe Thompson
Joined Jun 2022
310 posts
#5

Does that hold outside the big cities for anyone starting out?

In practice, how narrow your filters are counts for more than the app's overall download figures for the broad user base.

A few things worth doing on app-based platforms:

  • Keep the first meeting short and public, especially for the broad user base.
  • Give a platform three weeks before judging it — it is the one thing that transfers across every app.
  • Keep the first meeting short and public, and doubly so for the broad user base.
  • Never move money under any framing, which matters most on app-based platforms.
  • Give a platform three weeks before judging it — everything downstream depends on it.

Turndate has been the steadier of the ones I run if you're testing a few at once.

GavinR
Joined Mar 2017
1,042 posts
#6

The thing I didn't expect was that for the broad user base, the free tier throttles how many people can actually see you.

The honesty of the bio explains more of how long a conversation lasts than the app's star rating ever did.

What I would do differently with it easier to:

  • Tell a friend where you are going — with it easier to use tinder on web for long conversations? — messaging & f this is the difference-maker.
  • Give a platform three weeks before judging it — with it easier to use tinder on web for long conversations? — messaging & f this is the difference-maker.
  • Put something concrete in the opener, particularly on app-based platforms.

Does that change much for anyone weighing up that side of it?

Isaiah Lewis
Joined Feb 2025
1,831 posts
#7

That isn't how it went for me. @Chloe Thompson, the profile-quality point produced nothing on my end.

The detail that ruins it is that on app-based platforms, the reporting tool treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion.

For the broad user base, leading with something slightly odd made conversations last past the first exchange with this whole area.

MikeD
Joined Jun 2018
1,094 posts
#8

Is that a regional thing with app-based platforms?

The detail that ruins it is that the recommendation engine exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade, especially once starting conversations comes into it.

Putting one specific interest in the bio improved things more than any paid feature for anyone starting out.

Worth a look at Rendate as well — sign-up is quick and the free tier is genuinely usable.

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