Does the bagels dating app still limit you to noon matches only?

Started by PatrickR 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: does the bagels dating app still limit you to noon matches only.

There's a real gap between how dating app is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

My own attempt at dating app lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

Where noon is concerned, these are the dating app questions I have:

  • Whether messaging on dating app works without handing over card details
  • Whether noon is the reason dating app feels inconsistent
  • Whether dating app has real users outside the big metros

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating app.

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#2

If dating app is the question, Datenest.site is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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#3

Picking up what PatrickR said — dating app is regional first. The noon variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating app.

I'd separate noon from dating app here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

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#4

RachelS has a point about dating app. A friend had a good outcome with dating app and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

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#5

Since we're comparing options around dating app, Flamedate came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Set a deadline when you try dating app, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

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#6

For anyone else researching dating app, I would put Turndate.site on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

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#7

the Datewander boards is what I ended up using while working through dating app — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Counterpoint — treating dating app as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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#8

For me the noon side of dating app was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

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