How does a meetup dating site differ from the regular Meetup app?

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Ray Hudson
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 1174
#1

Trying to settle a meetup dating site differ from the regular Meetup app for myself and the reviews are useless. I do not need a feature list on meetup dating site — I need to know about the hours-to-dates ratio.

Most of my experience is with free platforms, which may be why I am stuck. Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on meetup dating site than the sheer time it ate.

The parts of meetup dating site I keep getting stuck on:

  • Block early and report often on meetup dating site — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Screenshot anything odd on meetup dating site before you report it — the payoff claims need evidence
  • Ask most people in this thread what meetup dating site is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Do not pay to fix the return on the hours on meetup dating site; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
  • Photos with other people in them do worse on meetup dating site than you would guess

Any first-hand experience with a meetup dating site differ from the regular Meetup app is welcome, good or bad.

Felix Grant
Joined: Jun 2021
Messages: 535
#2

I would argue the opposite on meetup dating site: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than free dating apps. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on meetup dating site than the sheer time it ate.

You can work around the return on the hours on meetup dating site, but you have to be deliberate about it. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on meetup dating site, but you have to be deliberate about it.

One smaller option worth comparing on the time it costs is Souldate — different pool, same free messaging as meetup dating site.

Derek77
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 1047
#3

That feels too harsh on meetup dating site, given the effort-to-result ratio is a problem across free platforms rather than specific to it. The pattern I see with meetup dating site is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go.

What changed my results on meetup dating site was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I judge meetup dating site by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Matt Lewis
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 206
#4

Respectfully no — complaints about the time it costs on meetup dating site usually come from people who gave it a week. I judge meetup dating site by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

You can work around the time it costs on meetup dating site, but you have to be deliberate about it. Take that as one data point on meetup dating site rather than a recommendation.

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There is no paywall between you and a conversation in meetup dating site.

Ethan Parker
Joined: May 2022
Messages: 734
#5

Where I differ from Matt Lewis on meetup dating site: this matches what I found with meetup dating site, where the time it costs is exactly where it falls down. The thing people underrate about meetup dating site is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city. I judge meetup dating site by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

For people who have actually tried it, the meetup dating site experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. For the crowd on this board, the meetup dating site experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else. There is no version of meetup dating site where the return on the hours sorts itself out without you doing something. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on meetup dating site than the sheer time it ate.

For completeness on meetup dating site, datewander.site, datescout.site get mentioned a lot too.

Grant_88
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 143
#6

That feels too harsh on meetup dating site, given actually getting anywhere is a problem across free dating apps rather than specific to it.

The pattern I see with meetup dating site is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. For people replying above, the meetup dating site experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else.

Somebody in another meetup dating site thread pointed me at Turndate and it held up better than expected on the hours-to-dates ratio.

Aaron Brooks
Joined: Nov 2023
Messages: 1188
#7

This matches what I found with meetup dating site, where actually getting anywhere is exactly where it falls down.

For the crowd on this board, the meetup dating site experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about meetup dating site is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

Haley Frost
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 232
#8

Aaron Brooks and I've clearly used meetup dating site differently, because different experience on meetup dating site, where the payoff turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. What changed my results on meetup dating site was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If the payoff is your main worry with meetup dating site, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Your meetup dating site results will vary by city more than by platform.

A smaller name people rarely mention in meetup dating site threads is Flurrydate.

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