The gap between good and bad platforms here is how the pricing behaves once you are invested.
About 40 profiles into the platform, the pattern around whether you can hide your location convincingly became obvious.
Unless you are in a major metro, expect whether the community polices itself to be the limiting factor on the app.
Anything I recommend around the site has to clear one bar, which is how much control you get over who sees you.
Reply rate on the site roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though what the real cost is after the trial never budged.
Before committing time to it, work out what the app leaks to other members.
Happy to go into more detail on m looking for free online dating if it is useful.
