Wanted to open a thread on the tender dating website experience like because the coverage elsewhere is shallow.
Most write-ups skip what usage looks like entirely, which is the only bit I care about.
Concrete examples around tender dating welcome, vague reassurance less so.
What helped with tender dating was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.
Not affiliated with anyone, but Ezhookups did better than I expected when I was dealing with tender dating.
TammyJ has this right about tender dating —depends heavily on context — tender dating can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
I kept notes for a month with tender dating: measurably different once the novelty wore off.
This overstates the problem with tender dating, I think.
I stuck with it longer than I meant to, and what stood out about tender dating was how quickly the pattern set in.
I watched a friend go through it, and what stood out about tender dating was how quickly the pattern set in.
Datedesire gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for tender dating.
I gave it a fair run with tender dating: considerably different once the novelty wore off.
As far as I can tell, opinion on tender dating swings further than the reality does.
I rotated through a few while working on tender dating and Datebound had the least friction on the free tier.
Agreed on tender dating, and from what I've seen the pattern holds wherever I have looked.
Worth separating two things here — tender dating and what people expect from it.
It is narrower than that: tender dating can fail in one specific way rather than generally.
There is a version of this I agree with: tender dating can be inconsistent rather than bad.
Ran tender dating alongside two others for comparison and the gap was a lot smaller than advertised.
Half the reviews of tender dating read like they were commissioned.
Small thing, big effect on tender dating: write openers that reference something specific.
If you take one thing from this on tender dating, make it the profile photos.
Short version of what worked for tender dating:
Results on tender dating improved once I stopped optimising for volume.
I'd push back on this, because tender dating worked quite a bit better for me than you're suggesting.
Kept a tally on tender dating since the spring and the numbers were not what I expected.
Both can be true: tender dating can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.
Depends heavily on context — tender dating can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Kept a tally on tender dating over a couple of months and the numbers were not what I expected.
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