Has anyone tried top local singles com? Is it worth a look?

Genuine question about anyone tried top local singles com? Is it worth a look — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. My problem with local singles com so far has been actually getting anywhere.

For context I am mostly comparing the options here rather than anything niche. The thing people underrate about local singles com is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city.

Things about local singles com I have not worked out:

• Photos with other people in them do worse on local singles com than you would guess
• Test actually getting anywhere on local singles com deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Do not pay to fix the payoff on local singles com; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; local singles com activity is nothing like flat
• Ask the members answering here what local singles com is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived

Any first-hand experience with anyone tried top local singles com? Is it worth a look is welcome, good or bad.

Where I differ from Marcus on local singles com: respectfully no — complaints about the return on the hours on local singles com usually come from people who gave it a week.

You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on local singles com, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on local singles com was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Respectfully no — complaints about the time it costs on local singles com usually come from people who gave it a week. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on local singles com than the sheer time it ate.

Most of the noise about local singles com comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on local singles com scales with how many people are online at your hours. Your local singles com results will vary by city more than by platform.

ZoeFoster is right about one part of local singles com: yes, and I would add that actually getting anywhere on local singles com gets worse the longer you stay.

If the return on the hours is your main worry with local singles com, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Things I wish somebody had told me about local singles com:

• Do not move off local singles com into private messaging until the effort-to-result ratio looks handled
• Compare local singles com against platforms in this space on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what local singles com does about the hours-to-dates ratio before you upload anything you would not want indexed

Jenny_K is right about one part of local singles com: reading this back, my local singles com notes say almost the same thing about the payoff.

For people who have actually tried it, the local singles com experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. Not saying local singles com suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Respectfully no — complaints about the effort-to-result ratio on local singles com usually come from people who gave it a week. Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on local singles com than the sheer time it ate.

For most people in this thread, the local singles com experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. The pattern I see with local singles com is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

Somebody in another local singles com thread pointed me at Datenest and it held up better than expected on the effort-to-result ratio.

I read Ryan84's reply on local singles com and agreed, although with local singles com I would frame the time it costs as a symptom rather than the cause. For people who have actually tried it, the local singles com experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on local singles com scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The thing people underrate about local singles com is how much the payoff depends on your own city. What changed my results on local singles com was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Happy to answer follow-ups on local singles com if that helps.

Picking up IsobelR's point about the payoff, that has not been my experience of local singles com, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across the sites people keep naming, and local singles com sits mid-table.

You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on local singles com, but you have to be deliberate about it. The pattern I see with local singles com is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

Worth a look alongside local singles com: Souldate, if only to see how differently the time it costs can be handled.