Is the dating com website better than their mobile app for messaging?

Started by MonicaS · ·8 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#compare #free #general

MonicaS
Joined Aug 2023
1,379 posts
#1

Right — dating com website better than their mobile app for messaging? — free. a few weeks in, the useful part surprised me.

Where it falls down is that the match queue produces a template reply and closes the ticket — and nobody mentions it when they talk about cutting through the roundups.

The parts of dating com website better than their mobile app for messaging? — free in practice I cannot resolve on my own:

  • Does that hold outside the big cities when cutting through the roundups is the main worry?
  • Has anyone found the opposite with genuinely free apps?
  • Does anyone know if that still holds if you are dealing with cutting through the roundups?
  • Is that a regional thing for anyone in ordinary users?

On genuinely free apps, cutting the match list right down turned it from a chore into something workable.

After first-hand experience with messaging? — free, not marketing copy.

KelseyA
Joined Oct 2021
936 posts
#2

Has anyone compared the two directly for ordinary users?

The one change that worked was rewriting the opener — it roughly doubled the reply rate on genuinely free apps.

Broadly, the number of prompts you filled in gets the credit but the clarity of your main photo does the work for ordinary users.

CourtneyL
Joined Jan 2018
623 posts
#3

Shortening the bio by half improved things more than any paid feature, which surprised me.

My working theory is that on genuinely free apps, the response you give to a low-effort opener predicts how many conversations survive past day three better than the price of the subscription, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

On that point, Turndate — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

That is my read, not gospel given how fast genuinely free apps change.

Noah Williams
Joined Nov 2019
1,377 posts
#4

My experience was almost the opposite. @CourtneyL, the framing around the average user is closer to the opposite in my experience.

In practice, nothing changes how satisfied you're after a month as much as how long you leave a conversation running for the average user.

Is anyone getting different results with genuinely free apps?

SpencerA
Joined Apr 2020
607 posts
#5

In practice, nothing changes whether it feels worth the time as much as the honesty of the bio.

AubreyA
Joined Jun 2019
2,226 posts
#6

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the free tier gives you no idea when an account was last opened, which is the real problem with genuinely free apps.

Whether the photos look like the same person predicts whether it feels worth the time better than the app's star rating when it comes to dating com website better than their mobile app for messaging? — free specifically.

I would add Souldate if you want something to compare against.

MonicaS
Joined Aug 2023
1,379 posts
#7

Where it falls down is that the discovery feed quietly stops working after the first week, which is the real problem with genuinely free apps.

KelseyA
Joined Oct 2021
936 posts
#8

The price of the subscription gets the credit but the effort in the opening line does the work, although the platforms change constantly when it comes to dating com website better than their mobile app for messaging? — free specifically.

Adding Datebie to the list if you want something to compare against.

That is where I've got to at least on the cutting through the roundups side.

CourtneyL
Joined Jan 2018
623 posts
#9

Does that match what others see for the average user?

The recurring problem is that the support inbox seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

More often than not, how consistently you show up is a better predictor of how long a conversation lasts than the price of the subscription.

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