eight weeks of trying to work out best lgbt dating apps for community support? — niche & community datin, because the alternative was doing nothing, and my view has shifted twice since.
The thing I didn't expect was that for the LGBTQ+ community, the messaging limit rewards constant activity rather than genuine interest.
Something worth knowing: the gap between the response you give to a low-effort opener and how polished the profile looks is where the odds of a second date is actually decided, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule.
For anyone who has used dating apps recently:
Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for anyone in LGBTQ+ users?
Does anyone know if that still holds on dating apps?
Has anyone found the opposite on dating apps?
Has anyone found the opposite once you factor in sorting the shortlist?
The one change that worked was reading profiles properly before swiping — it changed the kind of people who replied.
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Opposite for me, oddly. @Jordan Edwards, the point about sorting the shortlist worked in a big city and nowhere else.
Leading with something slightly odd made the whole thing feel less like admin and nothing else came close.
The pattern I keep seeing is that the willingness to suggest meeting early explains more of whether it feels worth the time than how many matches you accumulate ever did.
Is that still true when sorting the shortlist is the main worry?
The thing I did not expect was that the recommendation engine resets every time the app updates — and nobody mentions it when they talk about sorting the shortlist.
In practice, nothing changes the odds of a second date as much as the quality of your first message, though a friend had the reverse experience for LGBTQ+ users.
Practical notes on sorting the shortlist:
Let a stalled conversation go — it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
Never move money under any framing, which matters most on dating apps.
Let a stalled conversation go — it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
Keep the first meeting short and public if sorting the shortlist is your main concern.
The pattern I keep seeing is that the marketing on the homepage gets the credit but whether you actually read the profile does the work for the LGBTQ+ community.
On dating apps, saying plainly what I was not after got three actual meetings out of six weeks with & community datin.
Has anyone compared the two directly in your local radius?
Datenest is the other one I would put on a shortlist.
In practice, the effort in the opening line predicts the proportion of real accounts you see better than the number of prompts you filled in.
For the LGBTQ+ community, suggesting a meeting inside two weeks produced better matches within about ten days once sorting the shortlist was the priority.
Turndate is the other one I would put on a shortlist.
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