Is farmersonly strictly for rural folks, or do city people use it too?

Short version: farmersonly strictly for rural folks, or do city people use it too. Long version below. Everything I have read about farmersonly skips straight past actually getting anywhere.

I have about a month of using what is on offer behind me and not much to show for it. What changed my results on farmersonly was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Where I need help with farmersonly:

• Ask people in low-density areas what farmersonly is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Block early and report often on farmersonly — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; farmersonly activity is nothing like flat
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — farmersonly rewards it

Anyone with a recent farmersonly strictly for rural folks, or do city people use it too story, please jump in.

DanW and I've clearly used farmersonly differently, because yes, and I would add that the effort-to-result ratio on farmersonly gets worse the longer you stay.

Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on farmersonly scales with how many people are online at your hours. Take that as one data point on farmersonly rather than a recommendation.

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing farmersonly — useful for judging actually getting anywhere honestly.

That tracks with my farmersonly run, which was fine until the time it costs became the whole experience.

The pattern I see with farmersonly is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about farmersonly is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

I will push back here, because farmersonly worked fine for me and the return on the hours was never the issue. For members outside cities, the farmersonly experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on farmersonly than the sheer time it ate. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on farmersonly than the sheer time it ate. Either way, the return on the hours is the thing I would test first on farmersonly.

Same experience on farmersonly: I gave it six weeks before actually getting anywhere got tiresome. What changed my results on farmersonly was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across what is on offer, and farmersonly sits mid-table. Happy to answer follow-ups on farmersonly if that helps.

For contrast with farmersonly I would look at DatingFly; the free tier there behaves differently.

Respectfully no — complaints about the return on the hours on farmersonly usually come from people who gave it a week. The pattern I see with farmersonly is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

For people with a thin local pool, the farmersonly experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about farmersonly is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city.

For completeness on farmersonly, datedesire.online, flurrydate.online get mentioned a lot too.