What is the best dating site for single parents?

Started by VeronicaT · ·7 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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VeronicaT
Joined Nov 2020
68 posts
#1

Been chewing on best dating site for single parents? — niche & community dating | dati for an embarrassing amount of time after moving to a new city, and my view has shifted twice since.

The detail that ruins it is that the verification flow gives you no idea when an account was last opened, which is the real problem with dating sites.

Where I would value another read, particularly for single parents:

  • Is anyone getting different results for anyone weighing up best dating site for single parents? — niche & community dating | dati?
  • Is that still true in your particular market?
  • Is anyone getting different results when you factor in this?
  • Does that change much outside your particular market?

Any recent, first-hand input on best dating site for single parents? — niche & community dating | dati appreciated.

ColbyR
Joined Apr 2022
2,943 posts
#2

I would frame that differently. @VeronicaT, the remark about filters held for a fortnight then stopped.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the match queue shows the same faces on a loop, especially once evaluating the alternatives comes into it.

Shortening the bio by half got three actual meetings out of six weeks, which surprised me.

The parts that transfer across dating sites:

  • Check when the account was last active, particularly on dating sites.
  • Ask one question, not four, particularly on dating sites.
  • Pick your own venue for a first meeting, and doubly so for single parents.
DominicA
Joined Sep 2020
1,775 posts
#3

Only partly agree. @ColbyR, the framing around single parents reads as survivorship bias to me.

In practice, for parents dating again, how quickly you reply tends to decide whether anything reaches a first meeting, though I would want more than my own experience before calling it a rule where evaluating the alternatives is concerned.

The one change that worked was saying plainly what I wasn't after — it stopped the conversations dying at day two.

CadeL
Joined Jun 2017
1,380 posts
#4

For single parents, setting fixed hours for it stopped the conversations dying at day two with best dating site for single parents? — niche & community dating | dati.

The parts that transfer across dating sites:

  • Tell a friend where you are going, which matters most on dating sites.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines, and doubly so for single parents.
  • Move to a voice or video call early, and doubly so for single parents.

Still working it out on this.

PatrickW
Joined May 2017
2,172 posts
#5

As far as I can tell, how consistently you show up is a better predictor of how many replies you get in a week than the boost you paid for for parents dating again.

Interested if others landed elsewhere on the this question.

Has anyone found the opposite on dating sites?

Emily Anderson
Joined Jan 2018
872 posts
#6

For single parents, dropping the filters cut the wasted time by more than half.

Broadly, which platform you picked gets the credit but how quickly you reply does the work for parents dating again.

Is anyone getting different results for single parents?

Riley Robinson
Joined Jan 2021
527 posts
#7

I want to gently disagree. @VeronicaT, the argument about verification produced nothing on my end.

For what it is worth, when evaluating the alternatives is the issue, the clarity of your main photo matters more than the marketing on the homepage, which might just be parents dating again for single parents.

For a straight comparison, Datebie and the activity level was better than I expected.

Your results may differ where evaluating the alternatives is concerned.

LauraC
Joined Aug 2022
1,665 posts
#8

When evaluating the alternatives is the issue, the effort in the opening line has a bigger effect on how satisfied you're after a month than the size of the company behind it.

My sticking point is that the search function collapses once you move outside a major city — and nobody mentions it when they talk about evaluating the alternatives.

Datebound has been the steadier of the ones I run — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

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