What are the best dating sites for open relationships?

Started by Stella Young · ·8 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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Stella Young
Joined Mar 2024
1,966 posts
#1

the better part of two years in, after moving to a new city, and the answer seems to depend heavily on where you live.

Where it falls down is that the notification system turns into a shop window the moment someone matches, which is the real problem with desktop dating platforms.

On balance, how consistently you show up is a better predictor of how satisfied you are after a month than how polished the profile looks, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite where filtering the noise is concerned.

Specifically, on community dating |, what I would like input on:

  • Is that a regional thing outside a mid-sized city?
  • Has anyone tested this recently for anyone in ENM daters?
  • Does that hold outside the big cities where filtering the noise is concerned?
  • Has anyone tested this recently with desktop dating platforms?
  • Has anyone tested this recently if you are dealing with filtering the noise?

After first-hand experience with best dating sites for open relationships? — niche & community dati, not marketing copy.

CassandraW
Joined May 2019
1,862 posts
#2

Can confirm — @Stella Young, the point about filtering the noise is exactly right.

On desktop dating platforms, moving to a call early made conversations last past the first exchange on desktop dating platforms.

As far as I can tell, the clarity of your main photo is a better predictor of the proportion of real accounts you see than the marketing on the homepage, but that was months ago and things move where filtering the noise is concerned.

I have had a decent run on Datebie and there is no paywall on the basics.

Curious what others found on that side of it.

SophieR
Joined Apr 2017
2,423 posts
#3

Asking one real question instead of four changed the kind of people who replied.

The part nobody warns you about is that on desktop dating platforms, the discovery feed surfaces profiles that haven't been touched in months.

Has that changed since the last update across desktop dating platforms?

KaitlynB
Joined Dec 2020
2,267 posts
#4

For ENM daters, the honesty of the bio tends to decide how long a conversation lasts for polyamorous people.

Putting one specific interest in the bio changed the kind of people who replied on desktop dating platforms.

What survived contact with reality on best dating sites for open relationships? — niche & community dati:

  • Turn the notifications off, because it is the one thing that transfers across every app.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines, and doubly so for polyamorous people.
  • Let a stalled conversation go, especially for polyamorous people.
CooperS
Joined Jan 2020
507 posts
#5

Something worth knowing: the clarity of your main photo explains more of whether anything reaches a first meeting than the total registered user count ever did.

Is that still true with desktop dating platforms?

Sebastian Lee
Joined Sep 2021
611 posts
#6

Does that change much if you're dealing with filtering the noise?

Picking one platform and sticking with it changed the kind of people who replied and nothing else came close once filtering the noise was the priority.

BrookeN
Joined Sep 2021
2,895 posts
#7

In practice, the app's overall download figures gets the credit but how often you open the app does the work on desktop dating platforms.

Datescout came up in a similar thread if you're building a shortlist.

ConnorP
Joined Aug 2018
2,481 posts
#8

The honesty of the bio makes more difference than which tier you're on for polyamorous people.

Stella Young
Joined Mar 2024
1,966 posts
#9

Echoing this — @CooperS, the note on desktop dating platforms is underrated.

The pattern I keep seeing is that how consistently you show up matters more than whether it has a swipe interface for polyamorous people when it comes to the best dating sites for open relationships? — niche & community dati question.

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