What is the difference between bbw plus size and curvy categories?

Started by Chloe Torres · ·8 replies ·Niche & Community Dating

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Chloe Torres
Joined Dec 2023
2,656 posts
#1

Been at this roughly a year now, on the recommendation of someone here, and I still don't have a clean answer.

The detail that ruins it is that the match queue buries you the moment you stop checking daily, which is the real problem with dating apps.

Broadly, the effort in the opening line beats the feature list for plus-size daters.

The one change that worked was rewriting the opener — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks for plus-size daters.

Direct experience of difference between bbw is what I am after.

liam_CHI
Joined Jul 2020
1,478 posts
#2

Can confirm — @Chloe Torres, the point about filtering the noise is the whole thing really.

More often than not, the clarity of your main photo is a better predictor of the odds of a second date than the app's star rating.

Been running Turndate in parallel — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

Victoria
Joined Jan 2020
1,795 posts
#3

This is close to my read — @Chloe Torres, the framing around plus-size daters held up in my case too.

What actually frustrates me is that the profile editor collapses once you move outside a major city, which is the real problem with dating apps.

Worth a look at EZHookups as well — the profiles feel more current than most.

Aria Mendoza
Joined Jun 2019
2,873 posts
#4

My working theory is that how consistently you show up is a better predictor of the proportion of real accounts you see than the app's star rating.

What survived contact with reality on difference between bbw plus size and curvy categories? — niche & c specifically:

  • Keep work and socials out of it early on if filtering the noise is your main concern.
  • Put something concrete in the opener, because the alternative wastes weeks.
  • Write the bio for one person, not everyone, especially for plus-size daters.
dylan96
Joined Sep 2024
3,378 posts
#5

Echoing this — @Victoria, the argument about verification held up in my case too.

On dating apps, setting fixed hours for it produced better matches within about ten days with niche & commu.

For what it is worth, when filtering the noise is the issue, how specific you're about what you want counts for more than the number of prompts you filled in for plus-size users.

hunter91
Joined Jan 2024
2,665 posts
#6

For what it is worth, the gap between the effort in the opening line and which platform you picked is where whether it feels worth the time is actually decided in the difference between bbw plus size and curvy categories? — niche & commu context.

What wore me down was that the search function turns into a shop window the moment someone matches.

Deleting everything and starting over made conversations last past the first exchange and nothing else came close on dating apps.

andrew93
Joined Nov 2017
3,176 posts
#7

Only partly agree. @Victoria, the argument about verification didn't hold for me.

For plus-size daters, answering within a day produced better matches within about ten days.

wendyK
Joined Mar 2025
500 posts
#8

The one change that worked was swapping the main photo — it produced better matches within about ten days with niche & commu.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the photo verification step seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

For plus-size users, how long you leave a conversation running tends to decide whether anything reaches a first meeting, which might just be plus-size users in the difference between bbw plus size and curvy categories? — niche & c context.

Someone pointed me at EZHookups — the profiles feel more current than most.

Chloe Torres
Joined Dec 2023
2,656 posts
#9

My working theory is that how specific you're about what you want explains more of whether it feels worth the time than the total registered user count ever did in the the difference between bbw plus size and curvy categories? — niche & c question context.

Does anyone know if that still holds outside wherever you happen to live?

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