What is the success rate for match online dating compared to Tinder?

Every time online dating comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

I don't trust app store ratings on online dating — they're gamed in both directions.

I gave online dating about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring online dating:

• Whether messaging on online dating works without handing over card details
• How online dating handles rate compared with the bigger names
• How online dating treats rate once you stop paying

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

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

My experience with online dating was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Turndate itself is what I ended up using while working through online dating — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

To build on Alexander Lee's answer about online dating: Yes — and the reason online dating feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on online dating yet, which is itself an answer.

I keep the Datedesire forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with online dating.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Flurrydate threads solved the messaging-paywall part of online dating for me last year.