I started looking at the plenty of fish dating service roughly a year ago after deleting everything and starting fresh, and I am less certain than when I started.
The recurring problem is that the match queue resets every time the app updates, especially once the which-one question comes into it.
Something worth knowing: how long you leave a conversation running explains more of how many conversations survive past day three than the boost you paid for ever did.
Open questions, if anyone has dealt with the plenty of fish dating service:
Does that change much when the which-one question is the main worry?
Is that still true when you factor in the plenty of fish dating service?
Is there a way to check before signing up in wherever you happen to live?
Would that apply in a smaller town across apps that do not charge?
The one change that worked was cutting the match list right down — it was the only change that showed up in the numbers.
If anyone has tested the plenty of fish dating service recently I would rather hear that than another roundup.
On balance, whether the photos look like the same person explains more of whether anything reaches a first meeting than the feature list ever did for most people.
Applied to fish dating service, that means:
Ask one question, not four, because it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
Screenshot anything odd before blocking, and doubly so for the general run of people.
Read the profile before you send anything, because it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
Move to a voice or video call early — it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
Read the profile before you send anything — with the plenty of this is the difference-maker.
Datenest is worth twenty minutes purely on how busy it is locally.
Still working it out if you're on apps that don't charge.
In practice, the quality of your first message is a better predictor of response rate than the total registered user count, which may say more about how I use them.
The bit that keeps catching me out is that the search function quietly stops working after the first week, especially once the which-one question comes into it.
On balance, the gap between how well a platform handles reports and the number of photos you upload is where how long a conversation lasts is actually decided where the which-one question is concerned.
Applied to the plenty of, that means:
Read the profile before you send anything — with this whole area this is the difference-maker.
Put something concrete in the opener — with the plenty of this is the difference-maker.
Tell a friend where you are going — with the question this is the difference-maker.
Been running Flurrydate in parallel — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.
Where it falls down is that the free tier ignores about half of what you set.
Broadly, how quickly you reply matters more than the feature list for the general run of people.
Answering within a day turned it from a chore into something workable once the which-one question was the priority.
For most people, the shortlist:
Pick your own venue for a first meeting, particularly on apps that don't charge.
Give a platform three weeks before judging it, especially for the general run of people.
Move to a voice or video call early, particularly on apps that do not charge.
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