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What are the dating apps better than tinder for finding serious relationships?

Started by Dylan4 Jun 20269 repliesRelationships

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#1

Hoping someone here has first-hand experience of dating apps. What are the dating apps better than tinder for finding serious relationships?

I have spent a few months on dating apps now and the variance is genuinely surprising.

Anything you learned the hard way about dating apps is exactly what I am after.

#2

If we're talking dating apps, goal mismatch wastes the most time.

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#3

Going to disagree with Dylan here, because in my experience with dating apps, goal mismatch wastes the most time.

Goal mismatch wastes the most time, and that applies to dating apps as much as anywhere.

My read on dating apps: commitment level varies more than profiles suggest.

The tell with dating apps is usually whether the photos look professionally shot.

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#4

Carol makes a fair point but I have found the opposite with dating apps — serious intent is unevenly distributed.

I'd check if daily message limits survives contact with reality — worth checking before you commit to dating apps before committing any time to dating apps.

Flamedate.online gets mentioned in these dating apps threads fairly often, for what that is worth.

#5

Quick checklist I use when weighing up dating apps:

  • whether distance handling is applied consistently when you test it against dating apps
  • if the privacy settings is more than decoration — worth checking before you commit to dating apps
  • whether profile verification can be switched off when you test it against dating apps

Where dating apps is concerned, long-term intent is not evenly spread.

With dating apps specifically, long-term intent is not evenly spread.

The honest answer on dating apps is that serious intent is unevenly distributed.

#6

With dating apps specifically, the relationship-minded crowd clusters somewhere specific.

Leading with a real detail rather than a compliment made more difference to my dating apps results than switching platforms did.

#7

My rough process for evaluating dating apps:

  • whether support response times is applied consistently when you test it against dating apps
  • if the onboarding questions is easy to find — worth checking before you commit to dating apps
  • whether the onboarding questions on dating apps actually works

Counterpoint to Melissa — finding people with matching goals is the hard part, and that changes the answer on dating apps.

You can usually spot the difference on dating apps by how generic the opening line is.

#8

Melissa, I would push back on that. Shared intent is rarer than shared interests, and I do not think dating apps is the exception.

If whether the block and report tools on dating apps survives contact with reality isn't there, I don't bother with dating apps at all.

If we're talking dating apps, shared intent is rarer than shared interests.

#9

What I would check before committing any time to dating apps:

  • whether the unmatch behaviour holds up under real use when you test it against dating apps
  • if the reporting flow holds up under real use — worth checking before you commit to dating apps
  • whether the 'last active' timestamps on dating apps is more than decoration

If we're talking dating apps, finding people with matching goals is the hard part.

With dating apps specifically, shared intent is rarer than shared interests.

Adding one more to the list: Flurrydate came up repeatedly when I researched dating apps.

Worth comparing against Ezhookups before you settle on anything for dating apps.

#10

Appreciate the range of answers on dating apps here; the consensus seems to be that matching on intent beats matching on interests.

Profile completeness across the pool says more than promotional claims, at least in my experience with dating apps.

Match quality says more than the interface design, at least in my experience with dating apps.

Having tried a fair few, I'd say long-term intent is not evenly spread when it comes to dating apps.

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