Is an alt dating app the best place for people with tattoos and piercings?

Started by Elizabeth Day 8 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: is an alt dating app the best place for people with tattoos and piercings.

Most of what's written about dating app is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

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

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

  • How dating app treats piercings once you stop paying
  • Whether dating app has real users outside the big metros
  • How quickly dating app puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
  • Whether anyone has tested piercings properly on dating app

If you've actually used something relevant to dating app, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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#2

I keep the Rendate free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating app.

What's your actual goal here — is dating app about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

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#3

Picking up what Elizabeth Day said — dating app is regional first. The piercings disagreement in this thread says more about dating app than any single answer.

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#4

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

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

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#5

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

The piercings angle you raise is the part most threads on dating app skip entirely.

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#6

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

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

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#7

Just flagging that some results you will find for dating app are review farms rather than reviews.

The piercings variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating app.

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#8

Watch for the pattern where dating app is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

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

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#9

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

For completeness, Rendate.online sits in the same category for dating app.

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