Is there an alt dating app for alternative lifestyles?

Came to an alt dating app for alternative lifestyles? — free dating & apps | d after a fairly grim first attempt, gave it the last couple of months, and the useful part surprised me.

What nobody mentions is that the block function buries you the moment you stop checking daily.

As far as I can tell, on zero-cost platforms, how consistently you show up counts for more than how many matches you accumulate.

The parts of an alt dating I cannot resolve on my own:

• Is that still true when narrowing the options is the main worry?
• Is there a way to check before signing up for the broad user base?
• Is that worth the time investment with zero-cost platforms?
• Is that worth the time investment for the broad user base?
• Does that hold outside the big cities given narrowing the options?

Happy to hear dissenting views on an alt dating app for alternative lifestyles? — free dating & apps — that is partly why I am asking.

For the broad user base, answering within a day made conversations last past the first exchange.

For what it is worth, which tier you're on gets the credit but the response you give to a low-effort opener does the work.

On zero-cost platforms, answering within a day made a bigger difference than switching platforms for the broad user base.

What wore me down was that the search function produces a template reply and closes the ticket, which is the real problem with zero-cost platforms.

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

Would like to hear a counter-argument given how fast zero-cost platforms change.

Is there a way to check before signing up when narrowing the options is the main worry?

Deleting everything and starting over cut the wasted time by more than half, which surprised me.

Does that hold outside the big cities outside a mid-sized city?

Seconding this — @AmandaK, the remark about filters is exactly right.

On zero-cost platforms, cutting the match list right down stopped the conversations dying at day two.

Worth running Datebound in parallel for a couple of weeks.