Are there flirting sites that are strictly for practice and not meeting?

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HannahG
Joined: Dec 2023
Messages: 429
#1

So: flirting sites that are strictly for practice and not meeting. I have read a lot of contradictory takes on flirting sites strictly and would rather hear from people who tried it. My problem with flirting sites strictly so far has been the payoff.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about the options here. The pattern I see with flirting sites strictly is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go.

What would actually help me judge flirting sites strictly:

  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the flirting sites strictly pool near you is thin
  • Message within a day of matching — on flirting sites strictly that window closes fast
  • Turn off read receipts on flirting sites strictly if actually getting anywhere is making you anxious about response times
  • Treat your first flirting sites strictly profile as a draft, because the payoff punishes lazy ones
  • Check what flirting sites strictly does about the return on the hours before you upload anything you would not want indexed

Tell me what actually happened with flirting sites that are strictly for practice and not meeting rather than what should happen.

Monica_H
Joined: Jan 2022
Messages: 335
#2

I would argue the opposite on flirting sites strictly: the effort-to-result ratio is the one thing it handles better than the options here.

There is no version of flirting sites strictly where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on flirting sites strictly scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Justin Case
Joined: Mar 2021
Messages: 235
#3

Picking up Monica_H's point about the effort-to-result ratio, reading this back, my flirting sites strictly notes say almost the same thing about the effort-to-result ratio. For people replying above, the flirting sites strictly experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else. The pattern I see with flirting sites strictly is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go.

The pattern I see with flirting sites strictly is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go. There is no version of flirting sites strictly where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something. Take that as one data point on flirting sites strictly rather than a recommendation.

The short version for flirting sites strictly:

  • Do not pay to fix the effort-to-result ratio on flirting sites strictly; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
  • Photos with other people in them do worse on flirting sites strictly than you would guess
  • Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — flirting sites strictly rewards it
  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on flirting sites strictly

For contrast with flirting sites strictly I would look at Ezhookups; the free tier there behaves differently.

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NathanW
Joined: Mar 2021
Messages: 335
#4

Broadly agree on flirting sites strictly — the hours-to-dates ratio was what decided it for me too. I judge flirting sites strictly by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. The thing people underrate about flirting sites strictly is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city.

You can work around the time it costs on flirting sites strictly, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on flirting sites strictly was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. If the time it costs is your main worry with flirting sites strictly, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Whatever you pick, judge flirting sites strictly on actually getting anywhere after a month rather than after a weekend.

The usual flirting sites strictly alternatives people list are luvdate.site, datingfly.online.

Kyle_B
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 748
#5

I will push back here, because flirting sites strictly worked fine for me and the return on the hours was never the issue. What changed my results on flirting sites strictly was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on flirting sites strictly than the sheer time it ate. I judge flirting sites strictly by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

A smaller name people rarely mention in flirting sites strictly threads is DatingFly.

Patrick Reyes
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 168
#6

Same experience on flirting sites strictly: I gave it six weeks before the return on the hours got tiresome.

You can work around the payoff on flirting sites strictly, but you have to be deliberate about it. Whatever you pick, judge flirting sites strictly on the payoff after a month rather than after a weekend.

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