What are the most popular dating apps for finding serious love?

Keep running into the same wall with the most popular dating apps for finding serious love.

The thing I can't get clarity on is hit rate.

If your experience with popular dating contradicts mine, say so.

Ran popular dating alongside two others for comparison and the gap was measurably smaller than advertised.

Whatever you decide about popular dating, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Worth adding Datebound to whatever shortlist you are building around popular dating.

I had the opposite result with popular dating, and I gave it a fair run.

What helped with popular dating was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

Jennifer raises the part of popular dating that matters.the answer changes depending on what you want out of popular dating.

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

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

Small thing, big effect on popular dating: write openers that reference something specific.

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

Kept a tally on popular dating across a few weeks and the numbers were not what I expected.

If it helps, here's my process around hit rate:

• Rewrite your popular dating profile once you have seen how others there present themselves
• Cut the number of parallel conversations on popular dating to something you can sustain
• Keep identifying details off popular dating until there is a reason to share them

Luvdate came up when I was comparing free tiers for popular dating and it held up — it is quiet, which cuts both ways.

Jessica is closer to it than the rest of this thread on popular dating.can confirm on popular dating; markedly the same result on my end.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with popular dating past the first month.

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

Scott is closer to it than the rest of this thread on popular dating.careful with the consensus forming here about popular dating.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with popular dating past the first month.

I logged what happened with popular dating: distinctly different once the novelty wore off.

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

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

On hit rate specifically, Datebie handled it better than the obvious names.