Has anyone used an asexual dating app successfully?

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GregP
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 716
#1

Putting anyone used an asexual dating app successfully to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. match relevance is what makes or breaks asexual for me.

For context I am mostly comparing the free-tier sites rather than anything niche. I judge asexual by one thing now: whether compatibility scoring improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

What would actually help me judge asexual:

  • Do not move off asexual into private messaging until suggestion relevance looks handled
  • Compare asexual against free dating apps on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what asexual does about who it actually surfaces before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on asexual if suggestion relevance is making you anxious about response times

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about anyone used an asexual dating app successfully.

TomC
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 543
#2

Agreed, although with asexual I would frame match relevance as a symptom rather than the cause.

You can work around who it actually surfaces on asexual, but you have to be deliberate about it. Your asexual results will vary by city more than by platform.

TracyB
Joined: Feb 2021
Messages: 40
#3

Seconding this, because on asexual the honest answer is that match relevance varies enormously by area.

Honestly, match relevance was less of a problem on asexual than the sheer time it ate. Nobody warns you that match quality on asexual scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The short version for asexual:

  • Check what asexual does about compatibility scoring before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Do not move off asexual into private messaging until match quality looks handled
  • Treat your first asexual profile as a draft, because the algorithm punishes lazy ones
  • Run asexual beside one other option so you have a baseline for suggestion relevance
  • Turn off read receipts on asexual if the algorithm is making you anxious about response times
Troy Vance
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 200
#4

This matches what I found with asexual, where who it actually surfaces is exactly where it falls down.

For the members answering here, the asexual experience lives or dies on who it actually surfaces and almost nothing else.

My rules for asexual these days:

  • Photos with other people in them do worse on asexual than you would guess
  • Test compatibility scoring on asexual deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Do not pay to fix compatibility scoring on asexual; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; asexual activity is nothing like flat
  • Ask the crowd on this board what asexual is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
Jared Stone
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 408
#5

Troy Vance put the asexual case better than I would have, though disagree, because blaming suggestion relevance lets you off the hook — my asexual results improved when my profile did. I keep two accounts running to compare who it actually surfaces across the free-tier sites, and asexual sits mid-table.

Nobody warns you that who it actually surfaces on asexual scales with how many people are online at your hours. I judge asexual by one thing now: whether match quality improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I judge asexual by one thing now: whether match relevance improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

Alex Torres
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 287
#6

Seconding this, because on asexual the honest answer is that match quality varies enormously by area. The thing people underrate about asexual is how much match relevance depends on your own city. If match quality is your main worry with asexual, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

If suggestion relevance is your main worry with asexual, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Nobody warns you that suggestion relevance on asexual scales with how many people are online at your hours. Happy to answer follow-ups on asexual if that helps.

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LiamJ
Joined: Jun 2021
Messages: 1009
#7

Same experience on asexual: I gave it six weeks before match quality got tiresome. I judge asexual by one thing now: whether the algorithm improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. If who it actually surfaces is your main worry with asexual, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

There is no version of asexual where match relevance sorts itself out without you doing something. Honestly, who it actually surfaces was less of a problem on asexual than the sheer time it ate. I judge asexual by one thing now: whether who it actually surfaces improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Take that as one data point on asexual rather than a recommendation.

Grant_88
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 58
#8

Disagree, because blaming suggestion relevance lets you off the hook — my asexual results improved when my profile did.

The thing people underrate about asexual is how much who it actually surfaces depends on your own city. What changed my results on asexual was treating the algorithm as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

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

Cole Fisher
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 997
#9

Respectfully no — complaints about match quality on asexual usually come from people who gave it a week. For people who have actually tried it, the asexual experience lives or dies on compatibility scoring and almost nothing else.

The pattern I see with asexual is that compatibility scoring is fine early and degrades as you go. Either way, match quality is the thing I would test first on asexual.

Emma Hayes
Joined: Oct 2023
Messages: 103
#10

Cole Fisher put the asexual case better than I would have, though seconding this, because on asexual the honest answer is that suggestion relevance varies enormously by area. Most of the noise about asexual comes from people measuring suggestion relevance over far too short a window.

For most of us posting here, the asexual experience lives or dies on match quality and almost nothing else. Honestly, match quality was less of a problem on asexual than the sheer time it ate. Most of the noise about asexual comes from people measuring who it actually surfaces over far too short a window.

My asexual baseline these days is Turndate, mostly because the algorithm is measurable there.

Sean Murphy
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 701
#11

Emma Hayes put the asexual case better than I would have, though i would argue the opposite on asexual: compatibility scoring is the one thing it handles better than free platforms.

There is no version of asexual where suggestion relevance sorts itself out without you doing something.

IsobelR
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 823
#12

Sean Murphy is right about one part of asexual: disagree, because blaming match relevance lets you off the hook — my asexual results improved when my profile did. What changed my results on asexual was treating suggestion relevance as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If compatibility scoring is your main worry with asexual, test it in the first week rather than the first month. I keep two accounts running to compare match quality across the free-tier sites, and asexual sits mid-table.

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