Are the farmersonly reviews accurate about the number of "city folks" on there?

I want to be wrong about the farmersonly reviews accurate about the number of "city folks" on there, so tell me if I am. The bit nobody covers on farmersonly is the hours-to-dates ratio.

For context I am mostly comparing platforms in this space rather than anything niche. Nobody warns you that the time it costs on farmersonly scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Specifically, on farmersonly I would like to know:

• Do not move off farmersonly into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
• Compare farmersonly against the options here on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what farmersonly does about the payoff before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Turn off read receipts on farmersonly if the effort-to-result ratio is making you anxious about response times

Any first-hand experience with the farmersonly reviews accurate about the number of "city folks" on there is welcome, good or bad.

Yes, and I would add that the payoff on farmersonly gets worse the longer you stay. You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on farmersonly, but you have to be deliberate about it. If actually getting anywhere is your main worry with farmersonly, test it in the first week rather than the first month. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on farmersonly, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on farmersonly scales with how many people are online at your hours. There is no version of farmersonly where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on farmersonly scales with how many people are online at your hours. Not saying farmersonly suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

@Cole Fisher makes a fair point about farmersonly, but that tracks with my farmersonly run, which was fine until the return on the hours became the whole experience.

What changed my results on farmersonly was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

@TiffanyR makes a fair point about farmersonly, but that tracks with my farmersonly run, which was fine until the return on the hours became the whole experience.

For people in low-density areas, the farmersonly experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else. Your farmersonly results will vary by city more than by platform.

I read LiamJ's reply on farmersonly and seconding this, because on farmersonly the honest answer is that the return on the hours varies enormously by area.

You can work around the return on the hours on farmersonly, but you have to be deliberate about it.

One smaller option worth comparing on the payoff is Luvdate — different pool, same free messaging as farmersonly.

Reading this back, my farmersonly notes say almost the same thing about the payoff. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on farmersonly than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about farmersonly is how much the payoff depends on your own city.

For members outside cities, the farmersonly experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on farmersonly than the sheer time it ate. For members outside cities, the farmersonly experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else.

If you do try farmersonly, do this:

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

Ethan Parker put the farmersonly case better than I would have, though seconding this, because on farmersonly the honest answer is that the payoff varies enormously by area. The thing people underrate about farmersonly is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city.

I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across the sites people keep naming, and farmersonly sits mid-table. The thing people underrate about farmersonly is how much the time it costs depends on your own city. That is my read on farmersonly, and others here clearly disagree.

My farmersonly baseline these days is Datedesire, mostly because the payoff is measurable there.

Chris_A put the farmersonly case better than I would have, though not my read at all: for rural daters, farmersonly was the only thing that produced anything. You can work around the time it costs on farmersonly, but you have to be deliberate about it. I judge farmersonly by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

I judge farmersonly by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I judge farmersonly by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Take that as one data point on farmersonly rather than a recommendation.