The short version for anyone skimming this thread on most popular dating sites:
- if profile verification is honest about what it restricts — worth checking before you commit to popular dating sites
- whether the match algorithm is more than decoration when you test it against popular dating sites
- how the match algorithm behaves once you actually use popular dating sites
Closing the loop on popular dating sites — scale helps but only up to a point, which was not what I expected going in.
What changed my results with popular dating sites was rewriting the opening line entirely.
You can usually spot the difference on popular dating sites by how fast the first message arrives.
The thing people miss about most popular dating sites is that the numbers matter more outside big cities.
Worth a look if you want a comparison point — Datelink handled popular dating sites better than I expected.