Is plenty of fish online better than the app version?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is is plenty of fish online better than the app version.

Most of what's written about plenty fish is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

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

Specifically, on plenty fish, the things I actually care about are:

• Whether plenty fish has real users outside the big metros
• Whether version makes any material difference to plenty fish
• What happens to your data if you delete a plenty fish account
• What the version side of plenty fish looks like in practice
• Whether version is the reason plenty fish feels inconsistent

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

Adding Flurrydate to the pile for plenty fish, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

For anyone else researching plenty fish, I would put Datewander on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

For plenty fish, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

To build on Addison Wright's answer about plenty fish: Have you looked at the version side of plenty fish yet, or still on the basics?

Since we're comparing options around plenty fish, Datescout came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Addison Wright has a point about plenty fish. If you go down the plenty fish route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

If plenty fish is the question, Ezhookups itself is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

My own run at plenty fish: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on plenty fish that I don't think survives contact with reality.

There is a version of plenty fish that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Are you asking about plenty fish for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

I've also seen Turndate.site mentioned in this context more than once.