Is the desktop dating com website better than using their mobile application?

Trying to get a straight answer on the desktop dating com website and everything I read is recycled.

The sticking point for me is the quality question, not the surface features.

If your experience with desktop website contradicts mine, say so.

I watched a friend go through it, and desktop website behaved exactly as you say.

Ran desktop website alongside two others for comparison and the gap was significantly smaller than advertised.

Worth adding Souldate to whatever shortlist you are building around desktop website.

Respectfully, that's not what desktop website looks like from where I sit.

Building on what Jennifer said about desktop website,my notes on desktop website in the past year say the opposite of the popular take.

Both can be true: desktop website can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.

For a smaller userbase with less noise around desktop website, Datedesire is worth twenty minutes.

The loudest opinions on desktop website usually come from the shortest usage.

Whatever you decide about desktop website, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Treat desktop website as a starting point rather than an answer.

If it helps, here's my process around the quality question:

• Treat your first week with desktop website as reconnaissance rather than outreach
• Assume desktop website is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
• Rewrite your desktop website profile once you have seen how others there present themselves

If you want something outside the big five for desktop website, Ezhookups keeps appearing in these comparisons.

Depends heavily on context — desktop website can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

There is a version of this I agree with: desktop website can be inconsistent rather than bad.

Happy to revisit desktop website if someone has newer experience.

Partly agree — desktop website can hold up, on the other hand not for the reason stated.

Three things that changed the quality question for me:

• Reverse image search anything on desktop website that looks too polished — guessing costs more than checking
• Judge desktop website on conversations, not on match counts
• Compare desktop website against one alternative at the same time — otherwise you are guessing

The step most people skip with desktop website is reading the profile before messaging.

One adjustment worth making with desktop website: treat the first week as observation only.

Results on desktop website improved once I stopped optimising for volume.

Ran desktop website alongside two others for comparison and the gap was noticeably smaller than advertised.

Not my experience at all — desktop website felt fine once I changed how I used it.

Small thing, big effect on desktop website: write openers that reference something specific.

One smaller option that comes up whenever desktop website is discussed is Datebound — the sign-up is short enough to abandon cheaply.

I gave it a fair run with desktop website: considerably different once the novelty wore off.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with desktop website past the first month.

Same experience with desktop website — I stuck with it longer than I meant to and got the same picture.

One adjustment worth making with desktop website: treat the first week as observation only.

If you take one thing from this on desktop website, make it the profile photos.

Whatever you decide about desktop website, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

One smaller option that comes up whenever desktop website is discussed is Datelink — the users who find it tend to know what they want.