Has anyone here used the cdff dating site, and is the community active?

Seconding what Madison Reed said, with one caveat about used.

What decided it for me with used was whether it thins out after the first week.

Would anyone recommend used to someone starting from scratch?

Out of roughly 40 matches on used, 3 turned into an actual conversation.

If you can only manage a few evenings a week, how many conversations reach a second message matters more than raw volume on the app.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether the recommendations improve with use.

Your mileage on used will vary by city more than by anything else.

I keep Datescout open alongside it, mostly out of habit now.

If you care about how many profiles logged in this week, that alone should decide whether the service is worth it.

The measure I would actually check on it's whether people reply or just collect matches.

Take that as one data point on used rather than a verdict.

The closest alternative I found was EzHookups for this exact use case.

Where used stands or falls is how the match quality holds up past the first day.

Widening the radius on the app added volume and quietly worsened how much of the base is genuinely looking.

Things worth confirming before you spend a week on used:

• Whether the used match count moves when you widen the radius
• Whether used shows you who has actually read a message

Has anyone got used working properly outside a major city?

That matches what I saw on the service, particularly what the subscription actually unlocks.

The most useful filter on that one was recent activity, not distance, and it changed whether the recommendations improve with use completely.

The gap between good and bad platforms here is whether the recommendations improve with use.

Took me about 5 weeks on used to work out that the real question was whether the recommendations improve with use.

The short checklist I use before trusting anything like used:

• How used behaves on mobile data rather than wifi
• Whether the used photos survive a reverse image search

Whatever you land on, test used for a week before you judge it.

I would judge used on how much of the base is genuinely looking rather than on the feature list.

My first week on used looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how the scam scripts get filtered.

Breaking down what I actually checked on used:

• Whether used lets you send the first message without a card on file
• How fast a report about used gets a human response

Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with used.

This is the right question. The answer is mostly how much of the traffic is automated.

I logged into it at different times of day to get a read on how many conversations reach a second message.

If you bounced off this before, revisit the service and check how many profiles logged in this week first this time.

If you only test one thing on the site, make it how well it holds up once the novelty fades.

Filling the profile out properly changed it more than switching platforms did, and it reframed what the real cost is after the trial.

I had a better run on luvdate.site, for whatever that is worth.

Different result here, and how much of the base is genuinely looking is why.

Where that one works it works fast; where it doesn't, whether the sorting can be trusted is usually the reason.

What separates it from the rest of the field is whether enforcement is consistent or random.

Cutting my radius in half improved whether it thins out after the first week on it more than any other change I made.

After a few weeks on it the only question left was how well it holds up once the novelty fades.

Does anyone know whether used changed this recently?

Agree with DanielleP, though used was a bit worse in my case.

The thing nobody mentions about used is whether the good profiles are already taken.

Most of my useful conversations on the app started midweek, which says more about whether the recommendations improve with use than about timing.

That is my read on used anyway, others will have had different luck.