Are there inmate dating sites free of charge to communicate with pen pals?

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EvanH
Joined: Dec 2023
Messages: 207
#1

Short version: inmate dating sites free of charge to communicate with pen pals. Long version below. What I care about with communicate is the trial that quietly renews more than anything else.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about the free end of the market. Honestly, surprise billing was less of a problem on communicate than the sheer time it ate.

Where I need help with communicate:

  • Compare communicate against the free end of the market on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Run communicate beside one other option so you have a baseline for surprise billing
  • Do not move off communicate into private messaging until locked messaging looks handled
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the communicate pool near you is thin

Tell me what actually happened with inmate dating sites free of charge to communicate with pen pals rather than what should happen.

Derek77
Joined: Mar 2021
Messages: 338
#2

Building on what EvanH said about communicate, this matches what I found with communicate, where locked messaging is exactly where it falls down. I judge communicate by one thing now: whether the point where it starts charging improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Nobody warns you that surprise billing on communicate scales with how many people are online at your hours.

There is no version of communicate where the upgrade nag sorts itself out without you doing something. For the crowd on this board, the communicate experience lives or dies on locked messaging and almost nothing else. Not saying communicate suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

Three things that changed my communicate results:

  • Test the point where it starts charging on communicate deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on communicate
  • Photos with other people in them do worse on communicate than you would guess
  • Ask the members answering here what communicate is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Block early and report often on communicate — it trains the feed faster than anything
Spencer_H
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 816
#3

That has not been my experience of communicate, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. Nobody warns you that locked messaging on communicate scales with how many people are online at your hours.

For the members answering here, the communicate experience lives or dies on locked messaging and almost nothing else. The pattern I see with communicate is that surprise billing is fine early and degrades as you go. Your communicate results will vary by city more than by platform.

If you want a second data point on communicate, Datebie is the one I run alongside it.

NathanW
Joined: May 2021
Messages: 66
#4

That has not been my experience of communicate, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

You can work around the pay-to-see-likes trick on communicate, but you have to be deliberate about it. Take that as one data point on communicate rather than a recommendation.

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No card, no subscription and no trial that quietly bills you in communicate.

Ethan Parker
Joined: Jul 2022
Messages: 362
#5

This matches what I found with communicate, where the trial that quietly renews is exactly where it falls down.

Most of the noise about communicate comes from people measuring the trial that quietly renews over far too short a window.

Kyle_B
Joined: Dec 2023
Messages: 910
#6

@Ethan Parker makes a fair point about communicate, but reading this back, my communicate notes say almost the same thing about locked messaging. There is no version of communicate where the paywall sorts itself out without you doing something.

The thing people underrate about communicate is how much locked messaging depends on your own city. If the trial that quietly renews is your main worry with communicate, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

If you want a second data point on communicate, Luvdate is the one I run alongside it.

Samantha_J
Joined: Nov 2023
Messages: 36
#7

Kyle_B is right about one part of communicate: that feels too harsh on communicate, given the point where it starts charging is a problem across the free end of the market rather than specific to it. You can work around the point where it starts charging on communicate, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If locked messaging is your main worry with communicate, test it in the first week rather than the first month. For people replying above, the communicate experience lives or dies on the point where it starts charging and almost nothing else.

KatieM
Joined: Apr 2022
Messages: 785
#8

Broadly agree on communicate — the upgrade nag was what decided it for me too. The thing people underrate about communicate is how much the pay-to-see-likes trick depends on your own city. For most people in this thread, the communicate experience lives or dies on the upgrade nag and almost nothing else. For people replying above, the communicate experience lives or dies on the upgrade nag and almost nothing else.

The pattern I see with communicate is that a free tier that's not free is fine early and degrades as you go. Most of the noise about communicate comes from people measuring surprise billing over far too short a window. There is no version of communicate where locked messaging sorts itself out without you doing something. Either way, the paywall is the thing I would test first on communicate.

If you do try communicate, do this:

  • Treat your first communicate profile as a draft, because the point where it starts charging punishes lazy ones
  • Check what communicate does about the upgrade nag before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Give communicate a fortnight of daily use before calling the paywall a dealbreaker
  • Compare communicate against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Run communicate beside one other option so you have a baseline for the upgrade nag

Anyone comparing communicate on locked messaging should probably add Datebound to the list.

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