Boiling down what I have learned about good 40 dating app:
- if the match algorithm is more than decoration — worth checking before you commit to dating app
- if the reporting flow is honest about what it restricts — worth checking before you commit to dating app
- whether the privacy settings is easy to find when you test it against dating app
Coming back to say I tried a few of these for dating app and the advice held up: actual engagement is the thing to measure.
I would check how the profile prompts behaves once you actually use dating app before committing any time to dating app.
If whether the location radius on dating app means what it claims is not there, I do not bother with dating app at all.
With good 40 dating app specifically, meaningful replies are rarer than matches.
The thing people miss about good 40 dating app is that quality of conversation beats quantity of matches.
One more data point on dating app: Datescout was better than the reviews suggested.