Has anyone tried bbwtodate for local meetups?

Started looking into anyone tried bbwtodate for local meetups and immediately hit contradictory advice.

What I want to understand is hit rate rather than the feature list.

Happy to be told I'm thinking about local meetups the wrong way.

Nothing surprising here — local meetups can play out that way.

My notes on local meetups recently say the opposite of the popular take.

My notes on local meetups over the last few months say the opposite of the popular take.

Respectfully, that's not what local meetups looks like from where I sit.

As far as I can tell, opinion on local meetups swings further than the reality does.

Ran local meetups alongside two others for comparison and the gap was considerably smaller than advertised.

One smaller option that comes up whenever local meetups is discussed is Souldate — it is quiet, which cuts both ways.

Ran local meetups alongside two others for comparison and the gap was substantially smaller than advertised.

I kept notes for a month, and what stood out about local meetups was how quickly the pattern set in.

Tested local meetups deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datewander did better than I expected when I was dealing with local meetups.

I'd treat confident claims about local meetups with some suspicion, including mine.

Broadly, opinion on local meetups swings further than the reality does.

For anyone stuck on hit rate, Datingfly is at least worth ruling in or out — the sign-up is short enough to abandon cheaply.

Depends heavily on context — local meetups can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

Worth separating two things here — local meetups and what people expect from it.

The step most people skip with local meetups is reading the profile before messaging.

Ran local meetups alongside two others for comparison and the gap was a fair bit smaller than advertised.

What I ended up doing about hit rate:

• Move past local meetups to a call earlier than feels comfortable — the pattern shows up faster than you expect
• Give local meetups a full fortnight before forming a view
• Stop optimising local meetups for volume — you will not notice it otherwise

Datelink came up when I was comparing free tiers for local meetups and it held up — the free tier is more functional than most.

Respectfully, that's not what local meetups looks like from where I sit.

Both can be true: local meetups can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.

As far as I can tell, opinion on local meetups swings further than the reality does.

Someone raised Ezhookups in a thread about local meetups and it turned out to be a reasonable shout.