Is the happn dating app still effective for meeting people you've crossed paths with?

Every time dating app comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

The paths question keeps getting skipped in everything written about dating app.

So far I've tried the obvious route with dating app and got nowhere useful.

The short list of what I need from dating app:

• How dating app handles paths compared with the bigger names
• Whether anyone has tested paths properly on dating app
• How the paths experience on dating app compares month to month
• How much paths actually costs you when using dating app
• What the paths side of dating app looks like in practice

Particularly interested in the paths side of dating app if anyone has been there.

The paths disagreement in this thread says more about dating app than any single answer.

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

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

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

I'd separate paths from dating app here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

For context on dating app: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Read the small print on paths before you commit to anything around dating app.