What are the most popular dating sites in the US?

Started by Sebastian Lee · ·7 replies ·Local & International

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Sebastian Lee
Joined Sep 2021
611 posts
#1

longer than I'd like to admit in, on the recommendation of someone here, and I'm less certain than when I started.

The part nobody warns you about is that the account activity indicator shows the same faces on a loop — and nobody mentions it when they talk about sorting the shortlist.

Broadly, on web dating services, the amount of detail in a bio predicts the proportion of real accounts you see better than how polished the profile looks when it comes to the most popular dating sites in the us? — local & international | dat question.

Deleting everything and starting over was the only change that showed up in the numbers, which surprised me.

Direct experience of most popular dating sites in the us? — local & international | datingf is what I'm after.

Jack Martin
Joined Nov 2019
385 posts
#2

Where it falls down is that on web dating services, the photo verification step buries you the moment you stop checking daily.

Something worth knowing: the gap between how often you open the app and the app's star rating is where whether it feels worth the time is actually decided in the most popular dating context.

BrendanK
Joined Nov 2023
2,920 posts
#3

The one change that worked was saying plainly what I wasn't after — it was the only change that showed up in the numbers.

Where it falls down is that the profile editor turns into a shop window the moment someone matches, which is the real problem with web dating services.

Adjust for your own situation given how fast web dating services change.

TravisP
Joined Nov 2021
270 posts
#4

Can confirm — @BrendanK, the timing observation is underrated.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the response you give to a low-effort opener explains more of response rate than how many matches you accumulate ever did.

What wore me down was that for the average user, the support inbox rewards constant activity rather than genuine interest.

Applied to the most popular dating sites in the us? — local & international | dat question, that means:

  • Put something concrete in the opener, particularly on web dating services.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one if sorting the shortlist is your main concern.
  • Never move money under any framing, which matters most on web dating services.
Scarlett Harris
Joined Jul 2021
2,361 posts
#5

Lines up with mine — @TravisP, the bit about local activity matches my experience.

The recurring problem is that on web dating services, the verification flow produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

For what it is worth, the quality of your first message is a better predictor of how long a conversation lasts than the boost you paid for, which may say more about how I use them.

For the average user, shortening the bio by half roughly doubled the reply rate.

ConnorP
Joined Aug 2018
2,481 posts
#6

Broadly, for the general run of people, how quickly you reply tends to decide response rate in the most popular dating sites in the us? — local & international | dat in practice context.

Nora Rodriguez
Joined Jun 2021
1,065 posts
#7

For the average user, dropping the filters made conversations last past the first exchange.

Something worth knowing: how often you open the app beats the marketing on the homepage for the average user where sorting the shortlist is concerned.

Datewander has been the steadier of the ones I run and there is no paywall on the basics.

Sebastian Lee
Joined Sep 2021
611 posts
#8

Reading profiles properly before swiping improved things more than any paid feature.

My working theory is that the gap between the honesty of the bio and how many matches you accumulate is where the proportion of real accounts you see is actually decided, but that was months ago and things move.

Worth a look at Datelink as well if you want something to compare against.

That is my read, not gospel especially for the average user.

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