How does a local dating app help you find people within walking distance?

Started by JulianW 8 replies Board: Local Dating
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JulianW profile photo
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#1

I keep running into the same wall with local dating app and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

Nothing I can find on local dating app addresses help in any depth.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched local dating app.

Practically speaking, for local dating app I want to know:

  • How quickly local dating app puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
  • How local dating app handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
  • Whether the free tier on local dating app is genuinely usable or just a demo
  • Whether help is the reason local dating app feels inconsistent
  • What happens to your data if you delete a local dating app account

Even a 'don't bother' on local dating app is a useful answer.

Samantha Cook profile photo
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#2

Adding Flurrydate's free tier to the pile for local dating app, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Hard disagree on the help point. That has not been my experience of local dating app at all.

Natalie Bell profile photo
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#3

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

JamesC99 profile photo
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#4

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Ezhookups forums solved the messaging-paywall part of local dating app for me last year.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with local dating app here is genuinely useful.

Levi Robinson profile photo
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#5

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about local dating app points back to local density.

Julian White profile photo
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#6

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

Lucas Wilson profile photo
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#7

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

SophieR profile photo
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#8

If you go down the local dating app route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Amelia Brooks profile photo
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#9

Picking up what JulianW said — local dating app is regional first. A friend had a good outcome with local dating app and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

This matches what I've seen with local dating app, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

Flamedate.site comes up a lot when local dating app gets discussed elsewhere.

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