Is the meeting dating app actually good for organizing casual group hangouts?

Started by MasonC 11 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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MasonC profile photo
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#1

I've spent about three months poking at dating app and I still don't have a clean answer.

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

What would actually change my mind about dating app:

  • Whether hangouts is the reason dating app feels inconsistent
  • Whether hangouts makes any material difference to dating app
  • Whether dating app is honest about hangouts up front
  • How dating app treats hangouts once you stop paying

Will report back with what I find on dating app if people are interested.

Levi Robinson profile photo
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#2

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

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#3

Be careful with dating app: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

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

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#4

Disagree with Ben1989 slightly here on dating app. Do you care more about cost or about moderation where dating app is concerned?

Good thread — most discussion of dating app online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing, assuming hangouts is your main priority here.

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#5

Hard disagree on the hangouts point. That has not been my experience of dating app at all.

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#6

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

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#7

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

This is the correct question, and most threads about dating app start two steps further along and miss it.

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#8

Adding Turndate to the pile for dating app, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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#9

Have you looked at the hangouts side of dating app yet, or still on the basics?

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#10

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

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#11

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

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#12

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

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

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