Is the pure dating site really as good as people say for finding casual stuff?

Started by JulianW 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

Would appreciate honest takes on dating site — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

The problem with researching dating site is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

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

Concretely, for dating site, these are my criteria:

  • Whether pure makes any material difference to dating site
  • How dating site handles pure compared with the bigger names
  • Whether dating site has real users outside the big metros
  • Whether messaging on dating site works without handing over card details

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating site.

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#2

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

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on dating site are more use than any ranked list.

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#3

JulianW has a point about dating site. Half the disagreement in this thread about dating site is people using the same words for different goals.

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#4

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

The pure disagreement in this thread says more about dating site than any single answer.

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#5

The thing that caught me out with dating site was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Test pure first, because it tells you more about dating site than any feature comparison will.

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#6

I keep the Ezhookups forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating site.

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#7

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

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#8

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating site, so nobody repeats what you know?

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