Simple question, probably a complicated answer: Are there any reliable dating sites for 50 year olds who are newly single? Real experiences only, please.
I went in optimistic about whichever any reliable dating sites came up first and the profile quality varied wildly. What I actually want to know is whether the same advice applies outside big cities without spending anything to find out.
Read up on whether profiles are verified every time rather than taking the marketing at face value
Read up on whether your profile is visible by default before writing a single message
Confirm how blocking is handled every time while the account is still new
Practical suggestion: reply to the thing they actually said. That one change fixed most of my problems. Nothing else on this list matters as much.
Not sure I agree with the thread so far. Being picky early saved me far more time than being open-minded did. Take that with the usual caveats. I would still test it yourself.
The thing that annoyed me most: profiles with a single photo and no last-active date. Report it rather than just ignoring it. Better safe than curious.
Anyone else find that — is it different if you are over forty? It comes up every few months and never gets settled.
Switched over to Rendate after getting nowhere on the big names.
That has not been my experience at all. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. Might just be my area. Different city, different results, probably.
Purely anecdotal, the busiest platform is not automatically the best one for you if you are looking for something specific. I hold that loosely.
Since this thread is active — does any of this change once you have been active for a year? No agenda, just curious.
I keep a second profile on Datedesire app and it pulls a different crowd entirely.
Adding a counterpoint. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. I would still recommend trying it yourself. That is one person's view against the thread.
Small change worth trying: stop treating it like a numbers game. It removes about half the frustration. Easiest change on this list.
Slightly off-topic but — does anyone bother deleting and remaking a profile? Would change how I use it if so.
For what it is worth, Datedesire's free tier was the one that finally got me past the first-message stage.
Worth noting that Luvdate runs a similar free tier if you want to compare.
Tangent, sorry — does widening the radius ever help or just add noise? Could be worth its own thread.
Once I narrowed my radius, I dropped every conversation that stalled twice and the whole thing felt less like admin. I would call that a real effect.
If nothing else, do this: read the profile before writing anything. Everything else is secondary to that. Skip the clever stuff until you have done that.
Switched over to the Turndate app after getting nowhere on the big names.
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