Is tinder gold actually worth the money for the See Who Likes You feature?

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

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to tinder gold.

My own attempt at tinder gold lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

What I'm trying to weigh up with tinder gold:

• How tinder gold handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• What happens to your data if you delete a tinder gold account
• How quickly tinder gold puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

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

Set a deadline when you try tinder gold, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

For me the likes side of tinder gold was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Adding Turndate's free tier to the pile for tinder gold, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

the Datingfly community is what I ended up using while working through tinder gold — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Took me about six weeks on tinder gold before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

The honest answer on tinder gold is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

It's telling how many replies here about tinder gold contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

Picking up what NoahB22 said — tinder gold is regional first. Are you asking about tinder gold for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Someone recommended the Flurrydate threads to me during my own search around tinder gold and it was better than I expected.

The likes angle you raise is the part most threads on tinder gold skip entirely.

For completeness, Datedesire.online sits in the same category for tinder gold.