What are the best dating sites for seniors over 50?

Started by PhilipC · ·4 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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PhilipC
Joined Oct 2018
1,355 posts
#1

Posting this after six weeks on best dating sites for seniors over 50? — niche & community dating | da — two things mattered and the rest did not.

What actually frustrates me is that the verification flow rewards constant activity rather than genuine interest — and nobody mentions it when they talk about the which-one question.

More often than not, how long you leave a conversation running explains more of the odds of a second date than the app's star rating ever did, though a friend had the reverse experience.

Where I would value another read, particularly for the over-50s:

  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions given the which-one question?
  • Is that a regional thing given the which-one question?
  • Has anyone compared the two directly on the sites?
  • Has anyone found the opposite where the which-one question is concerned?

Keen to hear from anyone who has dealt with best dating sites for seniors over 50? — niche & community dating lately.

WyattB
Joined Dec 2024
3,087 posts
#2

That tracks — @PhilipC, the bit about local activity held up in my case too.

On balance, the amount of detail in a bio makes more difference than the app's star rating, but that was months ago and things move.

Picking one platform and sticking with it stopped the conversations dying at day two and nothing else came close.

The part nobody warns you about is that the messaging limit turns into a shop window the moment someone matches.

I've had a decent run on EZHookups — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

Interested if others landed elsewhere on the dating | da question.

Zoey Clark
Joined Mar 2020
321 posts
#3

Echoing this — @WyattB, the argument about verification is the part people miss.

The recurring problem is that for the over-50s, the messaging limit turns into a shop window the moment someone matches.

Riley Robinson
Joined Jan 2021
527 posts
#4

Is that still true when the which-one question is the main worry?

In practice, how specific you are about what you want has a bigger effect on how many replies you get in a week than the feature list for the over-50s.

Cutting the match list right down produced better matches within about ten days.

Datewander is worth twenty minutes if you want something to compare against.

Hope some of that helps where the which-one question is concerned.

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for people over 50?

DanielleK
Joined Aug 2017
1,254 posts
#5

For people over 50, how quickly you reply tends to decide how long a conversation lasts.

Rewriting the opener turned it from a chore into something workable and nothing else came close for the over-50s.

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