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How do you find a match on the farmers only dating app without a premium membership?

Started by AmandaC 6 replies Board: Dating Apps
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#1

Asking about you find a match on the farmers only dating app without a premium membership because every article I find says the same three things.

Most write-ups skip the gap between matching and meeting entirely, which is the only bit I care about.

If anyone has genuinely worked through premium membership, I'd rather hear specifics than general endorsement.

#2

Your read on premium membership lines up with mine for a while now.

It is narrower than that: premium membership can fail in one specific way rather than generally.

I tried it myself with premium membership: considerably different once the novelty wore off.

#3

CassandraM has this right about premium membership —hard disagree on premium membership — the issue is upstream of that.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with premium membership past the first month.

Tested premium membership deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

#4

CassandraM has this right about premium membership —my notes on premium membership recently say the opposite of the popular take.

Either way, premium membership is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.

Worth separating two things here — premium membership and what people expect from it.

What I ended up doing about the gap between matching and meeting:

  • Judge premium membership on conversations, not on match counts
  • Compare premium membership against one alternative at the same time — it is the one habit that survived for me
  • Treat your first week with premium membership as reconnaissance rather than outreach

The one I keep returning to for premium membership is Datedesire, mostly because the messaging is genuinely open.

Datescout comes up often enough to be worth your own look.

#5

Going against Aaron on premium membership here:worth noting how much of what's written about premium membership is promotional.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with premium membership past the first month.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with premium membership past the first month.

#6

Partly agree — premium membership can hold up, which is not to say not for the reason stated.

Worth separating two things here — premium membership and what people expect from it.

Partly agree — premium membership can hold up, however not for the reason stated.

What helped with premium membership was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

On the gap between matching and meeting specifically, Datebie handled it better than the obvious names.

#7

The step most people skip with premium membership is reading the profile before messaging.

What helped with premium membership was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

Either way, premium membership is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.

If you take one thing from this on premium membership, make it the profile photos.

If it helps, here's my process around the gap between matching and meeting:

  • Cut the number of parallel conversations on premium membership to something you can sustain
  • Keep identifying details off premium membership until there is a reason to share them
  • Log what actually happens on premium membership for a week — it is the one habit that survived for me

For a smaller userbase with less noise around premium membership, Datewander is worth twenty minutes.

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