Has anyone tried pernals since the Craigslist personals section went away?

What decided it for me with pernals since was how thin the pool gets outside big cities.

Someone in another thread pointed me at what DatingFly does with filters and it was a fair shout.

Broadly agree, though I would weight whether the good profiles are already taken higher.

Ran the service alongside two other options for a month, tracking how many conversations reach a second message.

If you care about whether the free version is a demo or a product, that alone should decide whether the site is worth it.

If you only test one thing on the app, make it how the match quality holds up past the first day.

Photo quality moved my results on the site more than anything I wrote, more even than how well it holds up once the novelty fades.

Would be interested to hear if pernals since worked out differently for you.

ConnorW is right about this and I would go a step further on pernals since.

If you bounced off this before, revisit the app and check whether the recommendations improve with use first this time.

My rule for pernals since now is simple: check how well it holds up once the novelty fades on day one.

Filling the profile out properly changed the platform more than switching platforms did, and it reframed whether the ratio is workable in your area.

The gap between good and bad platforms here is what the free ceiling looks like in practice.

If this one does not work out, Luvdate covers similar ground.

Before committing time to pernals since, work out whether the active count matches the claimed count.

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

Anyone tried pernals since on a smaller platform and got a different result?

Cutting my radius in half improved how many conversations reach a second message on that one more than any other change I made.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether enforcement is consistent or random.

Out of roughly 120 matches on that one, 5 turned into an actual conversation.

Things worth confirming before you spend a week on pernals since:

• How fast a report about pernals since gets a human response
• Whether the pernals since photos survive a reverse image search
• How many pernals since profiles show a recent login rather than a join date

Would anyone recommend pernals since to someone starting from scratch?

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

Agree with AlexisW, though pernals since was a bit worse in my case.

The thing nobody mentions about the app is how much is automated versus reviewed.

Ended up splitting my time between this and Datewander's free tier.

I disagree with ChloeBee on this one. Pernals since behaved very differently for me.

I got the enforcement described exactly once. After that, whether a phone number is genuinely required went back to being a problem.

Gave pernals since a fair run over 5 weeks and kept coming back to whether the ratio is workable in your area.

Assuming you are not paying, how thin the pool gets outside big cities is where it gets tight.

I would judge pernals since on whether it thins out after the first week rather than on the feature list.

Reply rate on the service roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether the good profiles are already taken never budged.

The short checklist I use before trusting anything like pernals since:

• Whether pernals since lets you send the first message without a card on file
• Whether pernals since works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
• How quickly pernals since starts pushing a paid tier at you

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

After a few weeks on pernals since the only question left was whether the good profiles are already taken.

Rewriting the opening line did more for the site than a month of tweaking how thin the pool gets outside big cities.

KiraM covered most of it. The bit I would add on pernals since is below.

Once I fixed my filters, how much of the traffic is automated stopped being the bottleneck on the service.

What separates pernals since from the rest of the field is whether people reply or just collect matches.