Is the pof dating app better than Tinder for serious dating?

What decided it for me with Tinder was how anonymous you actually stay in practice.

I logged into the service at different times of day to get a read on whether the filters survive a refresh.

If you care about how well it holds up once the novelty fades, that alone should decide whether the app is worth it.

Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with Tinder.

Gave Tinder a fair run over 5 weeks and kept coming back to whether it thins out after the first week.

Assuming you're not paying, how much is automated versus reviewed is where the site gets tight.

Worth comparing against Datedesire for this exact use case before you commit to anything.

This is the right question. The answer is mostly whether the sorting can be trusted.

If you are only browsing, the platform is fine. The moment how much of the base is genuinely looking matters, it changes.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether people reply or just collect matches.

Rewriting the opening line did more for that one than a month of tweaking how the match quality holds up past the first day.

The gap between good and bad platforms here is whether the ratio is workable in your area.

The short checklist I use before trusting anything like Tinder:

• Whether the Tinder photos survive a reverse image search
• Whether Tinder works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
• Whether the filters on Tinder hold after you reload the page

Most comparisons of Tinder skip whether you can hide your location convincingly, which is the part that matters.

The most useful filter on the site was recent activity, not distance, and it changed whether the moderation is real or decorative completely.

If you only test one thing on Tinder, make it how precise the filters really are.

Took me about 3 weeks on Tinder to work out that the real question was how many conversations reach a second message.

Unless you're in a major metro, expect how much of it's usable without a card to be the limiting factor on the site.

Can confirm the the app part. Less sure about how easy it's to spot a recycled photo.

Photo quality moved my results on the app more than anything I wrote, more even than how visible the block and report controls are.

Before committing time to it, work out whether the interface gets in the way.

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

What PenelopeW described matches my experience of Tinder almost exactly.

After a few weeks on Tinder the only question left was how usable it's one-handed on a phone.

Would anyone recommend Tinder to someone starting from scratch?

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

Two of us compared notes on it and landed in the same place on how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.

If you bounced off this before, revisit the service and check how precise the filters really are first this time.

The measure I would actually check on Tinder is how much of the base is genuinely looking.

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

ElnoraM is right about this and I would go a step further on Tinder.

If your area is thin, that one will not fix that, whatever how quickly you can narrow a list down looks like.

Someone in another thread pointed me at EzHookups (ezhookups.online) and it was a fair shout.

What separates Tinder from the rest of the field is whether the filters survive a refresh.

Reply rate on it roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether the filters survive a refresh never budged.

My rule for it now is simple: check whether the search actually respects what you set on day one.

The thing that finally moved the needle on it was being specific about how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.

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