What is the coffee dating app everyone is talking about for short dates?

Started by AbbyRoss88 10 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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AbbyRoss88 profile photo
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#1

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on dating app.

Nothing I can find on dating app addresses short in any depth.

My own attempt at dating app lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps, which in the end is really a short question.

Where short is concerned, these are the dating app questions I have:

  • Whether anyone has tested short properly on dating app
  • Whether short is worth prioritising over everything else in dating app
  • Whether short makes any material difference to dating app
  • How dating app treats short once you stop paying
  • How much short actually costs you when using dating app

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

SarahK profile photo
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#2

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

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#3

If short matters to you then dating app narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

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#4

SarahK, that's roughly where I landed on dating app too. Ran into exactly the short problem when I tried dating app last year, and it took weeks to work around.

This tracks. Once short enters the picture, dating app stops being a simple comparison.

JacksonY profile photo
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#5

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

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#6

If dating app is the question, the Datebie free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

The short angle you raise is the part most threads on dating app skip entirely.

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#7

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

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#8

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

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

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#9

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

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#10

Once I sorted out short, the rest of dating app became much more manageable than I expected.

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#11

Picking up what DavidN said — dating app is regional first. Agreed, and specifically on short — that is where dating app either works or falls apart.

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