Wanted to open a thread on the better dating apps for people who hate small talk because the coverage elsewhere is shallow.
The sticking point for me is what actually happens, not the surface features.
Detail beats consensus here — what did dating people actually look like for you?
My notes on dating people across a few weeks say the opposite of the popular take.
Datewander gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for dating people.
Amber, that has not been my experience of dating people.this is right about dating people, and it's under-discussed.
I gave it a fair run with dating people: a fair bit different once the novelty wore off.
The step most people skip with dating people is reading the profile before messaging.
I had the opposite result with dating people, and I gave it a fair run.
Depends heavily on context — dating people can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Worth separating two things here — dating people and what people expect from it.
The thing that shifted dating people for me was slowing down before replying.
For a smaller userbase with less noise around dating people, Flurrydate is worth twenty minutes.
What helped with dating people was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.
More often than not, opinion on dating people swings further than the reality does.
If you take one thing from this on dating people, make it the profile photos.
Results on dating people improved once I stopped optimising for volume.
The loudest opinions on dating people usually come from the shortest usage.
Worth adding Datescout to whatever shortlist you are building around dating people.
Worth separating two things here — dating people and what people expect from it.
Others swear by Datedesire; I have no first-hand read on it.
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