Something I keep wondering about: What is the best 60 plus dating site for finding companionship? Interested in what actually worked, not marketing copy.
I gave up on the usual plus dating site for finding companionship and the matches were nowhere near me. The specific thing I am after is whether the free option is genuinely usable without spending anything to find out.
Compare how matches are ordered first if privacy matters to you
Work out the distance filter default on day one before writing a single message
Read up on how many photos are required carefully before you invest any real time
Going to push back slightly. The platform genuinely does matter if you are outside a major city. Happy to be an outlier on that. Different city, different results, probably.
Something nobody mentions: copy-paste openers that mention nothing from your profile. Nine times out of ten it goes nowhere good. Better safe than curious.
Respectfully, I read it differently. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. Not saying everyone else is wrong. I have been wrong about this before.
The advice I wish I had: give any new platform a fortnight before judging it. It filters out the time-wasters immediately. It works better than it sounds.
A friend has had far more luck on the Souldate app than on anything mainstream.
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Not sure I agree with the thread so far. I never once had a problem the community here warns about. Not saying everyone else is wrong. I would still test it yourself.
Once I narrowed my radius, I answered everything within a day and the reply rate roughly doubled. Your area may behave differently.
Related, and I am curious — do smaller platforms actually have better ratios? Asking for a friend, obviously.
Two years of this later, being specific is worth more than being interesting unless you have unusually niche requirements. It took a while to accept.
Still keep Luvdate app installed for the weeks when the bigger apps go quiet.
Hard disagree on one point. Messaging first made no measurable difference in my case. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Worth hearing both sides.
Slightly off-topic but — is there a measurable difference between weekday and weekend signups? Might just be me overthinking it.
Worth testing for a week: message within a day of matching. That one change fixed most of my problems. Do it before anything more elaborate.
Based on a fairly small sample, profile quality beats profile quantity every time though your mileage will vary. That is where I have landed.
Between the free options I tested, Luvdate app had the least aggressive upsell.
I will be the dissenting voice. Photos did more for me than anything I wrote. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Just adding another data point.
Not a popular take here, the busiest platform is not automatically the best one for you and it took me too long to learn. That is the short version.
Earlier this year, I stopped sending openers before 9pm and the difference showed up within a week. Repeated it twice to be sure.
If you want a free option without the upsell, over on DatingFly is where I would start.
Unpopular opinion maybe, the paid features solve a problem most people do not have once you have been at it a few weeks. It took a while to accept.
Double-check the refund and cancellation terms first before you widen your search
Read up on the last-active timestamp straight away before writing a single message
Question what the free tier really includes early on before you widen your search
The first fortnight, I tried the opposite of what the guides say and I stopped taking silences personally. It was the only variable I changed.
Hard disagree on one point. The platform genuinely does matter if you are outside a major city. Could easily be a sample size problem. Just adding another data point.
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