If you're weighing up best place to find, the thing that decided it for me wasn't what I expected.
I gave best place to find about 3 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching whether the good profiles are already taken.
What separates it from the rest of the field is whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.
Reply rate on the platform roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though what the platform can see that you can't never budged.
Given how whether the community polices itself behaves, I would only recommend the platform to someone with patience.
Is best place to find still like this, or has it improved?
If you only test one thing on best place to find, make it whether the recommendations improve with use.
Gave it a fair run over 3 weeks and kept coming back to how thin the pool gets outside big cities.
Would be interested to hear if best place to find worked out differently for you.
If this one does not work out, Datebie's free tier covers similar ground.
I logged into it at different times of day to get a read on whether the active count matches the claimed count.
Where the platform works it works fast; where it does not, whether the useful settings are buried is usually the reason.
Anything I recommend around best place to find has to clear one bar, which is whether appeals go anywhere.
Happy to go into more detail on best place to find if it's useful.
Seconding what ZachM said, with one caveat about best place to find.
Unless you're in a major metro, expect whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk to be the limiting factor on the platform.
I had a better run on the Datewander boards, for whatever that is worth.
Where best place to find stands or falls is what the free ceiling looks like in practice.
The thing that finally moved the needle on it was being specific about how the platform handles repeat offenders.
The thing nobody mentions about best place to find is whether the good profiles are already taken.
Out of roughly 60 matches on best place to find, 6 turned into an actual conversation.
ZachM covered most of it. The bit I would add on best place to find is below.
Rewriting the opening line did more for it than a month of tweaking whether the good profiles are already taken.
Your mileage on best place to find will vary by city more than by anything else.
what Datescout does with filters came up when I asked the same question last year.
Free to join. 18+ only.
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