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Agree with TrevorK, though long was a bit worse in my case.

What decided it for me with long was whether the ratio is workable in your area.

I logged into it at different times of day to get a read on whether it thins out after the first week.

Given how whether people reply or just collect matches behaves, I would only recommend the site to someone with patience.

Before committing time to long, work out how many conversations reach a second message.

Would anyone recommend long to someone starting from scratch?

Seconding what Ethan Parker said, with one caveat about long.

Assuming you're not paying, what protection exists before you meet is where the site gets tight.

My rule for the platform now is simple: check whether the good profiles are already taken on day one.

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

After a few weeks on it the only question left was whether the active count matches the claimed count.

Someone in another thread pointed me at datebound.site and it was a fair shout.

What Emma Collins described matches my experience of long almost exactly.

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

Widening the radius on it added volume and quietly worsened how usable it's one-handed on a phone.

I would judge long on whether the active count matches the claimed count rather than on the feature list.

Out of roughly 120 matches on the app, 3 turned into an actual conversation.

Worth comparing against Datewander, which came up earlier before you commit to anything.

Olivia Brooks is right about this and I would go a step further on long.

Reply rate on the platform roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether enforcement is consistent or random never budged.

What I would look at, in order, for long:

• Whether the filters on long hold after you reload the page
• Whether the long photos survive a reverse image search
• Whether the long match count moves when you widen the radius
• How quickly long starts pushing a paid tier at you

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

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

TrevorK covered most of it. The bit I would add on long is below.

The measure I would actually check on long is how quickly reports get acted on.

That has not been my experience, Emma Collins. Long was the weakest part for me.

On paper how quickly reports get acted on is solved. In practice I hit the same wall three weeks running.

I gave long about 4 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching how thin the pool gets outside big cities.

If you care about what the verification step actually proves, that alone should decide whether the service is worth it.

If your area is thin, the app will not fix that, whatever how many profiles logged in this week looks like.

Most comparisons of the app skip how the match quality holds up past the first day, which is the part that matters.

Photo quality moved my results on the platform more than anything I wrote, more even than whether the interface gets in the way.

Seconding what SteveO said, with one caveat about long.

Where long stands or falls is whether the recommendations improve with use.

Once I fixed my filters, how the match quality holds up past the first day stopped being the bottleneck on the platform.

Is long still like this, or has it improved?

For a second opinion I also cross-checked how EzHookups handles it.