Is online friend finder good for platonic friends?

Asking because online friend finder good for platonic friends keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. the payoff is what makes or breaks online friend finder for me.

I have tried a few options across the options here already and none of them stuck. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on online friend finder than the sheer time it ate.

If you have used online friend finder, these are the bits I care about:

• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — online friend finder rewards it
• Do not pay to fix the hours-to-dates ratio on online friend finder; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Screenshot anything odd on online friend finder before you report it — the payoff claims need evidence

Tell me what actually happened with online friend finder good for platonic friends rather than what should happen.

Yes, and I would add that the payoff on online friend finder gets worse the longer you stay. The thing people underrate about online friend finder is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

There is no version of online friend finder where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. For people who have actually tried it, the online friend finder experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else. Most of the noise about online friend finder comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window.

What worked for me on online friend finder:

• Do not move off online friend finder into private messaging until the hours-to-dates ratio looks handled
• Compare online friend finder against the options here on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what online friend finder does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Turn off read receipts on online friend finder if the hours-to-dates ratio is making you anxious about response times
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the online friend finder pool near you is thin

I keep Souldate open as a control while testing online friend finder — useful for judging the time it costs honestly.

Reading this back, my online friend finder notes say almost the same thing about the hours-to-dates ratio. What changed my results on online friend finder was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. What changed my results on online friend finder was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

You can work around the time it costs on online friend finder, but you have to be deliberate about it. You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on online friend finder, but you have to be deliberate about it. I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across the sites people keep naming, and online friend finder sits mid-table.

Three things that changed my online friend finder results:

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

I will push back here, because online friend finder worked fine for me and the hours-to-dates ratio was never the issue.

For most people in this thread, the online friend finder experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

That has not been my experience of online friend finder, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. I judge online friend finder by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

There is no version of online friend finder where the hours-to-dates ratio sorts itself out without you doing something. That is my read on online friend finder, and others here clearly disagree.

If you want a second data point on online friend finder, Luvdate is the one I run alongside it.

Different experience on online friend finder, where actually getting anywhere turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. What changed my results on online friend finder was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

I judge online friend finder by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Your online friend finder results will vary by city more than by platform.

Respectfully no — complaints about the payoff on online friend finder usually come from people who gave it a week.

The thing people underrate about online friend finder is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city.