How are the major dating apps ranked this year for overall user safety and support?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is are the major dating apps ranked this year for overall user safety and support.

Every comparison of dating apps I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

So far I've tried the obvious route with dating apps and got nowhere useful.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating apps:

• How dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether the matching in dating apps does anything beyond distance
• What the support side of dating apps looks like in practice
• How much support actually costs you when using dating apps
• How much of the dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake

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

Depends heavily on support — take that out and dating apps becomes a much easier call.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebie free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of dating apps for me last year.

Broadly with you on dating apps, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

I'd qualify this: dating apps works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

One caution on dating apps — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

If support matters to you then dating apps narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

If dating apps is the question, Flamedate itself is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Good thread — most discussion of dating apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Someone recommended Turndate's free tier to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.

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

Read the small print on support before you commit to anything around dating apps.

I keep the Ezhookups threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

It's telling how many replies here about dating apps contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

The support disagreement in this thread says more about dating apps than any single answer.

ZoeyA has a point about dating apps. What moved the needle for me on dating apps was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

I've also seen Flamedate.online mentioned in this context more than once.