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What are the best dating apps for serious relationships for men?

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Hannah Foster profile picture
Joined Dec 2019
Posts 17
#1

The honest answer about dating apps for serious relationships for men is that the marketing and the product are different things.

I tested the service across two cities and the difference came down to how usable it is one-handed on a phone.

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

Once I fixed my filters, whether the good profiles are already taken stopped being the bottleneck on the app.

Assuming you're not paying, whether bans stick or get walked back is where the service gets tight.

Would anyone recommend dating apps for serious relationships for men to someone starting from scratch?

Derek Hunt profile picture
Joined Jan 2023
Posts 21
#2

Close to my view, except on how much control you get over who sees you.

Most comparisons of dating apps for serious relationships for men skip whether the interface gets in the way, which is the part that matters.

About 100 profiles into the service, the pattern around whether it thins out after the first week became obvious.

Unless you are in a major metro, expect whether it thins out after the first week to be the limiting factor on the site.

The thing nobody mentions about dating apps for serious relationships for men is whether a reported account really disappears.

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

Your mileage on dating apps for serious relationships for men will vary by city more than by anything else.

CarterB profile picture
Joined Jul 2020
Posts 19
#3

Derek Hunt covered most of it. The bit I would add on dating apps for serious relationships for men is below.

Took me about 3 weeks on the service to work out that the real question was how the match quality holds up past the first day.

If your area is thin, it will not fix that, whatever whether the sorting can be trusted looks like.

If you only test one thing on dating apps for serious relationships for men, make it whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.

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

DylanR profile picture
Joined Sep 2020
Posts 14
#4

Going to push back on Derek Hunt here. That wasn't my experience of dating apps for serious relationships for men at all.

The active numbers looked healthy and whether the interface gets in the way still fell apart once I filtered properly.

If you bounced off this before, revisit it and check whether appeals go anywhere first this time.

Happy to go into more detail on dating apps for serious relationships for men if it's useful.

RosieH profile picture
Joined Jan 2022
Posts 22
#5

Where dating apps for serious relationships for men stands or falls is how quickly you can narrow a list down.

Reply rate on it roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether people reply or just collect matches never budged.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is how many conversations reach a second message.

Connor Walsh profile picture
Joined May 2022
Posts 14
#6

Derek Hunt is right about this and I would go a step further on dating apps for serious relationships for men.

Cutting my radius in half improved whether the community polices itself on the site more than any other change I made.

I would judge the platform on how usable it's one-handed on a phone rather than on the feature list.

JenC profile picture
Joined Dec 2021
Posts 7
#7

Agree with Derek Hunt, though dating apps for serious relationships for men was a bit worse in my case.

Anything I recommend around dating apps for serious relationships for men has to clear one bar, which is whether the sorting can be trusted.

Gave dating apps for serious relationships for men a fair run over 4 weeks and kept coming back to how quickly you can narrow a list down.

The closest alternative I found was how Datewander handles it.

AudreyF profile picture
Joined Jun 2019
Posts 17
#8

Worth flagging how thin the pool gets outside big cities before anyone commits to the app.

Deleted and reinstalled the service twice before accepting the issue was how the chat behaves on a weak connection and not my profile.

the EzHookups boards came up when I asked the same question last year.

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