What are the best dating apps for lgbtq youth?

Nobody seems to write honestly about the best dating apps for lgbtq youth, so asking here.

Most write-ups skip what people actually rate entirely, which is the only bit I care about.

Happy to be told I'm thinking about dating apps the wrong way.

This overstates the problem with dating apps, I think.

Tested dating apps deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

I watched a friend go through it with dating apps: meaningfully different once the novelty wore off.

Datelink is the smaller name I would test alongside whatever you pick for dating apps.

Tested dating apps deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

One adjustment worth making with dating apps: treat the first week as observation only.

Tested dating apps deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

Depends heavily on context — dating apps can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

The useful test for dating apps is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.

On balance, opinion on dating apps swings further than the reality does.

Careful with the consensus forming here about dating apps.

Worth separating two things here — dating apps and what people expect from it.

Both can be true: dating apps can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.

For a smaller userbase with less noise around dating apps, Ezhookups is worth twenty minutes.

This is right about dating apps, and it's under-discussed.

Someone raised Datedesire in a thread about dating apps and it turned out to be a reasonable shout.

Kept a tally on dating apps in the past year and the numbers were not what I expected.

I ran both at once, and what stood out about dating apps was how quickly the pattern set in.

Worth separating two things here — dating apps and what people expect from it.

Three things that changed what people actually rate for me:

• Move past dating apps to a call earlier than feels comfortable — the pattern shows up faster than you expect
• Give dating apps a full fortnight before forming a view
• Stop optimising dating apps for volume — it removes most of the noise immediately

Datewander gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for dating apps.