Reposting this from another board because it got buried: Are there any supervised dating apps for 10 year olds purely for making friends? Real experiences only, please.
I have tested two of the bigger any supervised dating apps for making friends and the results were underwhelming. What would settle this for me is how you handle it when a conversation just stops without making it a second job.
Find out what the free tier really includes before anything else in the first day or two
Find out the last-active timestamp at the start if you plan to use it long-term
Look at whether your profile is visible by default at the start if you plan to use it long-term
Look at what the free tier really includes properly especially on a platform you have not used before
If nothing else, do this: cut your photo count in half. It made conversations shorter and far more useful. Do it before anything more elaborate.
Going to push back slightly. I never once had a problem the community here warns about. Take that with the usual caveats. Take it as a counterweight, not a correction.
Speaking only for myself, the paid features solve a problem most people do not have and the numbers back that up. Others here will disagree.
Still keep over on DatingFly installed for the weeks when the bigger apps go quiet.
Your next conversation in Zenica is one click away Free messaging in Zenica from the first hello onwards.
Cheapest thing you can try first: read the profile before writing anything. Everything else is secondary to that. It also makes the rest easier.
Worth flagging: anyone asking for a phone number before a proper conversation. Once you notice it you cannot unsee it. Most people ignore it once and regret it.
For the people saying otherwise — does anyone bother deleting and remaking a profile? I have never seen data either way.
Hard disagree on one point. The niche options were quieter to the point of being useless. Take that with the usual caveats. There is room for both to be true.
If you want a free option without the upsell, datenest.site is where I would start.
Different experience here. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. Not saying everyone else is wrong. Not dismissing anyone else's experience.
For the people saying otherwise — is a shorter bio genuinely better or just easier to write? Could be worth its own thread.
Not sure I agree with the thread so far. The niche options were quieter to the point of being useless. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Small sample on my side too.
The first fortnight, I stopped sending openers before 9pm and the reply rate roughly doubled. Repeated it twice to be sure.
A friend has had far more luck on datedesire.online than on anything mainstream.
A couple of people in my circle swear by DatingFly for the same reason.
Worth testing for a week: message within a day of matching. That one change fixed most of my problems. Zero cost to test it.
Earlier this year, I messaged first every single time and the quality improved more than the quantity. Repeated it twice to be sure.
Not sure I agree with the thread so far. Free tiers stopped being enough for me after about a month. Happy to be an outlier on that. Not dismissing anyone else's experience.
While we are here — do smaller platforms actually have better ratios? Genuinely do not know the answer.
I keep a second profile on Luvdate and it pulls a different crowd entirely.
Not sure I agree with the thread so far. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. Not saying everyone else is wrong. Worth hearing both sides.
Around the time I gave up on the big names, I ran a minimal profile on any supervised dating apps for making friends and I finally stopped wasting evenings. Results were steady after the first week.
Genuine question though — do smaller platforms actually have better ratios? Asking for a friend, obviously.
Purely anecdotal, the busiest platform is not automatically the best one for you and I doubt that changes soon. Ask again in six months and I may say something else.
Between the free options I tested, flurrydate.online had the least aggressive upsell.
Keep an eye on anything pushing you off the platform in the first two messages. Nine times out of ten it goes nowhere good. Better safe than curious.
Tangent, sorry — has anyone tracked whether reply rates change by day of the week? It comes up every few months and never gets settled.
Different experience here. Messaging first made no measurable difference in my case. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Not dismissing anyone else's experience.
