What are the best dating apps for women in terms of safety and reporting harassment?

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

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: best dating apps for women in terms of safety and reporting harassment.

There's a real gap between how best dating apps is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

The criteria I keep coming back to on best dating apps:

  • Whether the matching in best dating apps does anything beyond distance
  • What moderation on best dating apps actually looks like when you report someone
  • Whether the free tier on best dating apps is genuinely usable or just a demo

Particularly interested in the harassment side of best dating apps if anyone has been there.

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#2

Someone recommended the Datebound boards to me during my own search around best dating apps and it was better than I expected.

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#3

Strongly agree, and I would add that best dating apps looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

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#4

There is a version of best dating apps that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

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#5

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datewander.site solved the messaging-paywall part of best dating apps for me last year.

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

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#6

I keep Flamedate open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating apps.

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#7

Hard disagree on the harassment point. That has not been my experience of best dating apps at all.

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#8

Test harassment first, because it tells you more about best dating apps than any feature comparison will.

A friend had a good outcome with best dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

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