How does the coffee and bagels dating app limit your daily matches to encourage real chats?

Started by JulianW 9 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: the coffee and bagels dating app limit your daily matches to encourage real chats.

Nobody writing about dating app seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around dating app before posting.

Breaking dating app down into the parts I can test:

  • How dating app handles encourage compared with the bigger names
  • Whether encourage is worth prioritising over everything else in dating app
  • How quickly dating app puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about dating app.

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#2

I keep the Datebie forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating app.

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

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#3

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

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

Benjamin Davis profile photo
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#4

Someone recommended Datingfly to me during my own search around dating app and it was better than I expected.

Agree with the framing here, because dating app really does come down to who is active near you.

Ellie Baker profile photo
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#5

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

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#6

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

DominicA profile photo
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#7

The honest answer on dating app is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

Olivia Grant profile photo
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#8

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

Which parts of dating app have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

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#9

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

Luna Scott profile photo
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#10

Jake_NYC has a point about dating app. This tracks. Once encourage enters the picture, dating app stops being a simple comparison.

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

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