Are weird dating apps a good way to meet people, or just for fun?

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Erin Weston
Joined: Apr 2022
Messages: 764
#1

Been quietly reading for a while, but weird dating apps a good way to meet people, or just for fun is the thing I actually need an answer on. For people who have actually tried it, the return on the hours is the whole question with weird dating apps.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about free dating apps. Nobody warns you that the payoff on weird dating apps scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The parts of weird dating apps I keep getting stuck on:

  • Ask most people in this thread what weird dating apps is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Block early and report often on weird dating apps — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; weird dating apps activity is nothing like flat
  • Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — weird dating apps rewards it
  • Do not pay to fix the payoff on weird dating apps; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

If you have tried weird dating apps a good way to meet people, or just for fun recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

Alex Torres
Joined: Jul 2024
Messages: 583
#2

Different experience on weird dating apps, where the payoff turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. Most of the noise about weird dating apps comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window.

If the time it costs is your main worry with weird dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month. I judge weird dating apps by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

For contrast with weird dating apps I would look at Turndate; the free tier there behaves differently.

IsobelR
Joined: May 2021
Messages: 819
#3

Broadly agree on weird dating apps — the effort-to-result ratio was what decided it for me too. Most of the noise about weird dating apps comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window. There is no version of weird dating apps where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something.

For most of us posting here, the weird dating apps experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on weird dating apps than the sheer time it ate. Nobody warns you that the time it costs on weird dating apps scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Brooklyn92
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 638
#4

Not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, weird dating apps was the only thing that produced anything. Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on weird dating apps than the sheer time it ate.

If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with weird dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Either way, the time it costs is the thing I would test first on weird dating apps.

Chris_A
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 1109
#5

Same experience on weird dating apps: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on weird dating apps scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Most of the noise about weird dating apps comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window. The pattern I see with weird dating apps is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

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Tyler Reed
Joined: Apr 2021
Messages: 862
#6

Different experience on weird dating apps, where the effort-to-result ratio turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. For regulars here, the weird dating apps experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. The pattern I see with weird dating apps is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with weird dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month. The pattern I see with weird dating apps is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about weird dating apps is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

Practical bits, if you are trying weird dating apps:

  • Check what weird dating apps does about the payoff before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Do not move off weird dating apps into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
  • Treat your first weird dating apps profile as a draft, because the return on the hours punishes lazy ones
  • Run weird dating apps beside one other option so you have a baseline for actually getting anywhere
Patrick Reyes
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 228
#7

Not my read at all: for people replying above, weird dating apps was the only thing that produced anything.

There is no version of weird dating apps where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across free platforms, and weird dating apps sits mid-table.

Brittany Lake
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 1082
#8

This matches what I found with weird dating apps, where the hours-to-dates ratio is exactly where it falls down. I judge weird dating apps by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. For regulars here, the weird dating apps experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else.

Most of the noise about weird dating apps comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window. I judge weird dating apps by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across no-payment dating sites, and weird dating apps sits mid-table. What changed my results on weird dating apps was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

My weird dating apps baseline these days is Ezhookups, mostly because the hours-to-dates ratio is measurable there.

Rachel Cruz
Joined: May 2021
Messages: 58
#9

That has not been my experience of weird dating apps, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across the free-tier sites, and weird dating apps sits mid-table. The pattern I see with weird dating apps is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

SophieR
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 140
#10

Disagree, because blaming the return on the hours lets you off the hook — my weird dating apps results improved when my profile did.

What changed my results on weird dating apps was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across free dating apps, and weird dating apps sits mid-table.

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