#1
Been circling you find local dating sites that aren't just full of fake, out-of-state profiles for a while and the answers online are thin.
Everything hinges on telling real profiles from fake ones as far as I'm concerned.
If your experience with find local dating contradicts mine, say so.
#3
Respectfully, that's not what find local dating looks like from where I sit.
The step most people skip with find local dating is reading the profile before messaging.
What helped with find local dating was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.
Happy to revisit find local dating if someone has newer experience.
Worth adding Souldate to whatever shortlist you are building around find local dating.
#4
Depends heavily on context — find local dating can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Depends heavily on context — find local dating can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Whatever you decide about find local dating, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.
Short version of what worked for find local dating:
- Stop optimising find local dating for volume — the pattern shows up faster than you expect
- Ignore any prompt on find local dating that pressures an upgrade in the first session
- Notice whether replies on find local dating arrive in bursts — guessing costs more than checking
I would check Turndate next if the mainstream apps have worn you down on find local dating.
#5
Results on find local dating improved once I stopped optimising for volume.
Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with find local dating past the first month.
Someone raised Datebie in a thread about find local dating and it turned out to be a reasonable shout.
#6
Wendy has this right about find local dating —this is right about find local dating, and it's under-discussed.
I watched a friend go through it with find local dating: substantially different once the novelty wore off.
#7
Greg, that has not been my experience of find local dating.nobody's numbers on find local dating are as solid as they sound, mine included.
One adjustment worth making with find local dating: treat the first week as observation only.
One adjustment worth making with find local dating: treat the first week as observation only.
#8
Kept a tally on find local dating for a while now and the numbers were not what I expected.
Kept a tally on find local dating over a couple of months and the numbers were not what I expected.
What I ended up doing about telling real profiles from fake ones:
- Write openers for find local dating that reference one specific detail, never a greeting alone
- Treat reviews of find local dating with the scepticism you would apply to any ad
- Reverse image search anything on find local dating that looks too polished — the difference is measurable within days
On telling real profiles from fake ones specifically, Flamedate handled it better than the obvious names.
#9
The answer changes depending on what you want out of find local dating.
#10
Results on find local dating improved once I stopped optimising for volume.
Happy to revisit find local dating if someone has newer experience.