Is there 100 free online dating for professionals?

Started by Caleb Rodriguez · ·9 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#compare #free #general

Caleb Rodriguez
Joined Jan 2022
2,314 posts
#1

I started looking at 100 free online dating for professionals? — free dating & apps | datin longer than I'd like to admit ago after a fairly grim first attempt, and the useful part surprised me.

Where it falls down is that the block function exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

The parts of 100 free online I cannot resolve on my own:

  • Does that hold outside the big cities with apps that do not charge?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions in your particular market?
  • Is that a regional thing for ordinary users?
  • Does that hold outside the big cities when you factor in this whole area?

On apps that don't charge, saying plainly what I wasn't after made the whole thing feel less like admin for people in the middle of the pack.

After first-hand experience with first-hand detail on 100 free online dating for professionals? — free dating & apps | d, not marketing copy.

Mateo Harris
Joined Jan 2018
1,995 posts
#2

That tracks — @Caleb Rodriguez, the profile-quality point is underrated.

Broadly, the willingness to suggest meeting early makes more difference than the marketing on the homepage for people in the middle of the pack for people in the middle of the pack.

Luvdate came up in a similar thread — the profiles feel more current than most.

Your results may differ at least on the the which-one question side.

RyanB
Joined Sep 2020
2,515 posts
#3

I want to gently disagree. @Caleb Rodriguez, the framing around people in the middle of the pack is closer to the opposite in my experience.

For what it is worth, the app's star rating gets the credit but how often you open the app does the work.

Has anyone compared the two directly for anyone weighing up this whole area?

ChloeC
Joined Feb 2021
322 posts
#4

Has anyone tested this recently across apps that don't charge?

My working theory is that the gap between how quickly you reply and the boost you paid for is where how long a conversation lasts is actually decided, though your area changes the picture completely.

Adding EZHookups to the list if you're building a shortlist.

Nora Rodriguez
Joined Jun 2021
1,065 posts
#5

The thing I didn't expect was that the messaging limit ignores about half of what you set.

More often than not, the gap between the response you give to a low-effort opener and how long you have had the account is where how long a conversation lasts is actually decided for ordinary users.

Curious what others found for anyone in ordinary users.

Madison Reed
Joined Mar 2019
3,378 posts
#6

Opposite for me, oddly. @Caleb Rodriguez, the argument about verification may have been better luck than most get.

For people in the middle of the pack, putting one specific interest in the bio roughly doubled the reply rate.

What nobody mentions is that for people in the middle of the pack, the account activity indicator shows the same faces on a loop.

Applied to this 100 free online dating for professionals? — free dating & apps | d problem, that means:

  • Say what you want in the first two lines, because it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
  • Put something concrete in the opener — everything downstream depends on it.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished, which matters most on apps that don't charge.

Still working it out given how fast apps that don't charge change.

DustinF
Joined Aug 2018
2,746 posts
#7

Where it falls down is that the support inbox throttles how many people can actually see you.

More often than not, for ordinary users, the effort in the opening line tends to decide the odds of a second date, which may say more about how I use them when it comes to 100 free online dating for professionals? — free dating & apps | datin.

Short version for people in the middle of the pack:

  • Check when the account was last active, because everything downstream depends on it.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished, especially for people in the middle of the pack.
  • Give a platform three weeks before judging it, particularly on apps that do not charge.
  • Turn the notifications off, particularly on apps that do not charge.

Flurrydate has been the steadier of the ones I run and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

Avery Jackson
Joined Feb 2022
3,005 posts
#8

Opposite for me, oddly. @ChloeC, the paywall comment is closer to the opposite in my experience.

When the which-one question is the issue, the size of the pool within ten miles outweighs the price of the subscription.

Asking one real question instead of four roughly doubled the reply rate on apps that do not charge.

Worth testing rather than taking my word on the question.

DylanF
Joined Jul 2023
259 posts
#9

More often than not, the clarity of your main photo explains more of how satisfied you are after a month than how polished the profile looks ever did.

The detail that ruins it is that on apps that don't charge, the match queue produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

SkylerN
Joined Mar 2020
3,030 posts
#10

The one change that worked was saying plainly what I wasn't after — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks for ordinary users.

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