Are mature dating apps better for casual encounters?

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Gavin Stone
Joined: Sep 2020
Messages: 494
#1

Asking because mature dating apps better for casual encounters keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. What I care about with mature casual encounters is the return on the hours more than anything else.

Most of my experience is with casual platforms, which may be why I am stuck. For people dating later in life, the mature casual encounters experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

Concretely, for mature casual encounters:

  • Run mature casual encounters beside one other option so you have a baseline for the return on the hours
  • Turn off read receipts on mature casual encounters if the time it costs is making you anxious about response times
  • Compare mature casual encounters against casual platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Message within a day of matching — on mature casual encounters that window closes fast

If you have tried mature dating apps better for casual encounters recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

Evan
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 397
#2

Picking up Gavin Stone's point about the effort-to-result ratio, i would argue the opposite on mature casual encounters: the return on the hours is the one thing it handles better than casual platforms. Most of the noise about mature casual encounters comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window.

Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on mature casual encounters scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about mature casual encounters comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window.

My mature casual encounters baseline these days is Datebound, mostly because the time it costs is measurable there.

Maya46
Joined: Jul 2021
Messages: 310
#3

That tracks with my mature casual encounters run, which was fine until actually getting anywhere became the whole experience. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on mature casual encounters than the sheer time it ate.

If the return on the hours is your main worry with mature casual encounters, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Either way, actually getting anywhere is the thing I would test first on mature casual encounters.

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Liam Carson
Joined: Sep 2019
Messages: 451
#4

Where I differ from Maya46 on mature casual encounters: same experience on mature casual encounters: I gave it six weeks before the return on the hours got tiresome.

I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across hookup apps, and mature casual encounters sits mid-table. What changed my results on mature casual encounters was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If you want a second data point on mature casual encounters, Ezhookups is the one I run alongside it.

Violet Ford
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 107
#5

@Liam Carson makes a fair point about mature casual encounters, but same experience on mature casual encounters: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome.

There is no version of mature casual encounters where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

Natalie Bailey
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 239
#6

This matches what I found with mature casual encounters, where the effort-to-result ratio is exactly where it falls down.

For people restarting after a long marriage, the mature casual encounters experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about mature casual encounters is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

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