Are online personals making a comeback since the Craigslist section closed?

Curious where people land on online personals making a comeback since the Craigslist section closed, because I keep getting told two opposite things. The bit nobody covers on personals for comeback is actually getting anywhere.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about platforms in this space. Most of the noise about personals for comeback comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window.

What would actually help me judge personals for comeback:

• Do not move off personals for comeback into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
• Compare personals for comeback against platforms in this space on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what personals for comeback does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed

Any first-hand experience with online personals making a comeback since the Craigslist section closed is welcome, good or bad.

Not my read at all: for regulars here, personals for comeback was the only thing that produced anything.

I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across the sites people keep naming, and personals for comeback sits mid-table.

Not my read at all: for the members answering here, personals for comeback was the only thing that produced anything.

I keep two accounts running to compare the time it costs across platforms in this space, and personals for comeback sits mid-table. The pattern I see with personals for comeback is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

This matches what I found with personals for comeback, where actually getting anywhere is exactly where it falls down. Most of the noise about personals for comeback comes from people measuring the payoff over far too short a window.

What changed my results on personals for comeback was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Take that as one data point on personals for comeback rather than a recommendation.

If you do try personals for comeback, do this:

• Ask regulars here what personals for comeback is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Block early and report often on personals for comeback — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; personals for comeback activity is nothing like flat
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — personals for comeback rewards it
• Do not pay to fix the hours-to-dates ratio on personals for comeback; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

My personals for comeback baseline these days is Datedesire, mostly because the return on the hours is measurable there.

Same experience on personals for comeback: I gave it six weeks before the hours-to-dates ratio got tiresome. Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on personals for comeback than the sheer time it ate. Most of the noise about personals for comeback comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window.

I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across the options here, and personals for comeback sits mid-table. For most of us posting here, the personals for comeback experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. Whatever you pick, judge personals for comeback on the payoff after a month rather than after a weekend.

Practical bits, if you are trying personals for comeback:

• Give personals for comeback a fortnight of daily use before calling the time it costs a dealbreaker
• Treat your first personals for comeback profile as a draft, because the return on the hours punishes lazy ones
• Message within a day of matching — on personals for comeback that window closes fast

For completeness on personals for comeback, datebound.site, rendate.site, souldate.site get mentioned a lot too.

Respectfully no — complaints about the payoff on personals for comeback usually come from people who gave it a week. There is no version of personals for comeback where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

I judge personals for comeback by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on personals for comeback, but you have to be deliberate about it. Either way, the return on the hours is the thing I would test first on personals for comeback.

Worth a look alongside personals for comeback: DatingFly, if only to see how differently the return on the hours can be handled.

BradleyM put the personals for comeback case better than I would have, though broadly agree on personals for comeback — the hours-to-dates ratio was what decided it for me too.

The pattern I see with personals for comeback is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Either way, the time it costs is the thing I would test first on personals for comeback.

I have seen flurrydate.online, turndate.site, luvdate.site recommended for personals for comeback, though I have not tested them properly.

I read Lauren_B's reply on personals for comeback and that has not been my experience of personals for comeback, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread. You can work around the time it costs on personals for comeback, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on personals for comeback than the sheer time it ate. You can work around the payoff on personals for comeback, but you have to be deliberate about it.