Is friend finder dating better for long-term flings or just one-night stands?

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Kyle_B
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 68
#1

Every time friend finder dating better for long-term flings or just one-night stands comes up the thread turns into an advert, so I am asking here instead. If actually getting anywhere is bad on friend finder dating, nothing else about it matters.

I have about a month of using the sites people keep naming behind me and not much to show for it. The pattern I see with friend finder dating is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go.

The open questions I have on friend finder dating:

  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on friend finder dating
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; friend finder dating activity is nothing like flat
  • Test the effort-to-result ratio on friend finder dating deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Block early and report often on friend finder dating — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Screenshot anything odd on friend finder dating before you report it — actually getting anywhere claims need evidence

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about friend finder dating better for long-term flings or just one-night stands.

Haley Frost
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 245
#2

Picking up Kyle_B's point about the time it costs, different experience on friend finder dating, where the time it costs turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

I judge friend finder dating by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. What changed my results on friend finder dating was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Natalie_W
Joined: Apr 2023
Messages: 165
#3

Reading this back, my friend finder dating notes say almost the same thing about the return on the hours.

What changed my results on friend finder dating was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Brooklyn92
Joined: Aug 2023
Messages: 289
#4

@Natalie_W makes a fair point about friend finder dating, but reading this back, my friend finder dating notes say almost the same thing about the effort-to-result ratio. If actually getting anywhere is your main worry with friend finder dating, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

For the members answering here, the friend finder dating experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. What changed my results on friend finder dating was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. You can work around actually getting anywhere on friend finder dating, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I keep Flurrydate open as a control while testing friend finder dating — useful for judging the hours-to-dates ratio honestly.

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ZoeFoster
Joined: Jun 2024
Messages: 240
#5

That feels too harsh on friend finder dating, given the time it costs is a problem across what is on offer rather than specific to it. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across platforms in this space, and friend finder dating sits mid-table. Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on friend finder dating than the sheer time it ate.

Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on friend finder dating scales with how many people are online at your hours. The thing people underrate about friend finder dating is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on friend finder dating, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Cole Fisher
Joined: Dec 2024
Messages: 578
#6

Reading this back, my friend finder dating notes say almost the same thing about the hours-to-dates ratio.

There is no version of friend finder dating where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something.

Erin Weston
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 487
#7

I will push back here, because friend finder dating worked fine for me and the time it costs was never the issue.

You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on friend finder dating, but you have to be deliberate about it. Either way, the return on the hours is the thing I would test first on friend finder dating.

Justin Case
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 73
#8

Same experience on friend finder dating: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome.

I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across platforms in this space, and friend finder dating sits mid-table.

For contrast with friend finder dating I would look at Ezhookups; the free tier there behaves differently.

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