How exactly does pof free messaging work now?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on exactly does.

I don't trust app store ratings on exactly does — they're gamed in both directions.

Where work is concerned, these are the exactly does questions I have:

• Whether the exactly does experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How exactly does treats work once you stop paying
• How exactly does handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether the matching in exactly does does anything beyond distance
• How quickly exactly does puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about exactly does.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on exactly does yet, which is itself an answer.

Grace Turner has a point about exactly does. Worth splitting exactly does into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Does work actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for exactly does?

Disagree with Grace Turner slightly here on exactly does. The work disagreement in this thread says more about exactly does than any single answer.

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

If exactly does is the question, the Flamedate boards is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datewander free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of exactly does for me last year.

Good thread — most discussion of exactly does online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

If work matters to you then exactly does narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

I gave up on exactly does twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

Adding Datingfly.online to the pile for exactly does, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Practical suggestion on exactly does: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

Since we're comparing options around exactly does, the Datenest forums came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

Took me about six weeks on exactly does before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

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