What is the most reliable best dating site for serious relationships?

Started by Nathan Walker · ·4 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#compare #serious #general

Nathan Walker
Joined Feb 2017
1,774 posts
#1

Posting this after longer than I'd like to admit on most reliable best dating site for serious relationships? — free datin — two things mattered and the rest did not.

Where it falls down is that the onboarding boost seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

When evaluating the alternatives is the issue, how often you open the app predicts how many replies you get in a week better than which platform you picked, though it varies enormously by city.

Happy to hear dissenting views on this whole area — that is partly why I'm asking.

ZoeOnline
Joined May 2022
2,645 posts
#2

Seconding this — @Nathan Walker, the argument about verification is the part people miss.

Picking one platform and sticking with it improved things more than any paid feature, which surprised me for anyone starting out.

Noah Williams
Joined Nov 2019
1,377 posts
#3

Opposite for me, oddly. @Nathan Walker, the timing observation produced nothing on my end.

What wore me down was that the distance filter makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.

My working theory is that on commitment-oriented services, how quickly you reply outweighs the marketing on the homepage.

Your results may differ across commitment-oriented services generally.

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for anyone weighing up this?

MitchellS
Joined Oct 2023
838 posts
#4

That is not how it went for me. @Noah Williams, the advice about calling early may have been better luck than most get.

More often than not, how long you leave a conversation running is a better predictor of whether anything reaches a first meeting than how polished the profile looks, though your area changes the picture completely where evaluating the alternatives is concerned.

Reading profiles properly before swiping changed the kind of people who replied for most people.

Try Datedesire alongside whatever else you are testing and there is no paywall on the basics.

ColbyR
Joined Apr 2022
2,943 posts
#5

Broadly agreed — @MitchellS, the bit about local activity is spot on.

What actually frustrates me is that the onboarding boost surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months — and nobody mentions it when they talk about evaluating the alternatives.

Asking one real question instead of four made the whole thing feel less like admin with most reliable best dating site for serious relationships? — free datin.

Someone pointed me at Datebie and there is no paywall on the basics.

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