Are there platonic dating sites for finding friends instead of lovers?

Putting platonic dating sites for finding friends instead of lovers to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. For the members answering here, the hours-to-dates ratio is the whole question with platonic dating sites.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about free dating apps. The pattern I see with platonic dating sites is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go.

If you have used platonic dating sites, these are the bits I care about:

• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on platonic dating sites
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; platonic dating sites activity is nothing like flat
• Test actually getting anywhere on platonic dating sites deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Block early and report often on platonic dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Screenshot anything odd on platonic dating sites before you report it — the return on the hours claims need evidence

Tell me what actually happened with platonic dating sites for finding friends instead of lovers rather than what should happen.

Reading this back, my platonic dating sites notes say almost the same thing about the time it costs.

I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across free dating apps, and platonic dating sites sits mid-table.

One smaller option worth comparing on the effort-to-result ratio is Datenest — different pool, same free messaging as platonic dating sites.

I read Zach Holt's reply on platonic dating sites and different experience on platonic dating sites, where actually getting anywhere turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I judge platonic dating sites by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

What changed my results on platonic dating sites was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I judge platonic dating sites by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Happy to answer follow-ups on platonic dating sites if that helps.

That has not been my experience of platonic dating sites, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. For most of us posting here, the platonic dating sites experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on platonic dating sites than the sheer time it ate. Either way, the return on the hours is the thing I would test first on platonic dating sites.

Picking up Derek Chang's point about the return on the hours, broadly agree on platonic dating sites — actually getting anywhere was what decided it for me too. I judge platonic dating sites by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with platonic dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

If actually getting anywhere is your main worry with platonic dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month. There is no version of platonic dating sites where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on platonic dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The short version for platonic dating sites:

• Do not pay to fix the return on the hours on platonic dating sites; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Photos with other people in them do worse on platonic dating sites than you would guess
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — platonic dating sites rewards it

For contrast with platonic dating sites I would look at Datewander; the free tier there behaves differently.

Seconding this, because on platonic dating sites the honest answer is that the payoff varies enormously by area. You can work around the return on the hours on platonic dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on platonic dating sites than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about platonic dating sites is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city. If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with platonic dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Practical bits, if you are trying platonic dating sites:

• Treat your first platonic dating sites profile as a draft, because the effort-to-result ratio punishes lazy ones
• Check what platonic dating sites does about the effort-to-result ratio before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give platonic dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling the time it costs a dealbreaker
• Compare platonic dating sites against no-payment dating sites on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless