Does anyone still use friendfinder com, or has everyone moved to newer apps?

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Brent Olson
Joined: Jun 2024
Messages: 550
#1

Putting anyone still use friendfinder com, or has everyone moved to newer apps to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. actually getting anywhere is what makes or breaks friendfinder for me.

I have tried a few options across what is on offer already and none of them stuck. I judge friendfinder by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

If you have used friendfinder, these are the bits I care about:

  • Message within a day of matching — on friendfinder that window closes fast
  • Give friendfinder a fortnight of daily use before calling the return on the hours a dealbreaker
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the friendfinder pool near you is thin

Tell me what actually happened with anyone still use friendfinder com, or has everyone moved to newer apps rather than what should happen.

TracyB
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 572
#2

Not my read at all: for regulars here, friendfinder was the only thing that produced anything. I judge friendfinder by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

There is no version of friendfinder where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across the options here, and friendfinder sits mid-table. Your friendfinder results will vary by city more than by platform.

How I would approach friendfinder from scratch:

  • Block early and report often on friendfinder — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Screenshot anything odd on friendfinder before you report it — the payoff claims need evidence
  • Ask most of us posting here what friendfinder is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
Renee Cross
Joined: Apr 2024
Messages: 708
#3

I read TracyB's reply on friendfinder and same experience on friendfinder: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome. If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with friendfinder, test it in the first week rather than the first month. The pattern I see with friendfinder is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on friendfinder than the sheer time it ate.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on friendfinder scales with how many people are online at your hours. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on friendfinder scales with how many people are online at your hours. If the time it costs is your main worry with friendfinder, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Take that as one data point on friendfinder rather than a recommendation.

I keep Rendate open as a control while testing friendfinder — useful for judging the time it costs honestly.

StaceyR
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 476
#4

Renee Cross is right about one part of friendfinder: that has not been my experience of friendfinder, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

Nobody warns you that the time it costs on friendfinder scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around actually getting anywhere on friendfinder, but you have to be deliberate about it.

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Marcus
Joined: May 2022
Messages: 700
#5

Where I differ from StaceyR on friendfinder: that tracks with my friendfinder run, which was fine until actually getting anywhere became the whole experience. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on friendfinder scales with how many people are online at your hours. For regulars here, the friendfinder experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

I judge friendfinder by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across what is on offer, and friendfinder sits mid-table. Whatever you pick, judge friendfinder on the effort-to-result ratio after a month rather than after a weekend.

For contrast with friendfinder I would look at Luvdate; the free tier there behaves differently.

Eli Marsh
Joined: Sep 2024
Messages: 445
#6

Marcus is right about one part of friendfinder: reading this back, my friendfinder notes say almost the same thing about actually getting anywhere.

I judge friendfinder by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Jordan Wells
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 305
#7

That has not been my experience of friendfinder, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. The pattern I see with friendfinder is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go. I judge friendfinder by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across platforms in this space, and friendfinder sits mid-table. I keep two accounts running to compare the time it costs across what is on offer, and friendfinder sits mid-table. The pattern I see with friendfinder is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

BradleyM
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 317
#8

I would argue the opposite on friendfinder: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than what is on offer. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across what is on offer, and friendfinder sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about friendfinder comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window. For people who have actually tried it, the friendfinder experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else.

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