Is singles dating harder now with the rise of "swipe" culture?

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Whitney_B
Joined: Feb 2021
Messages: 905
#1

I want to be wrong about singles dating harder now with the rise of "swipe" culture, so tell me if I am. For people replying above, actually getting anywhere is the whole question with singles dating harder.

Most of my experience is with the options here, which may be why I am stuck. I keep two accounts running to compare the time it costs across the options here, and singles dating harder sits mid-table.

The parts of singles dating harder I keep getting stuck on:

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  • Screenshot anything odd on singles dating harder before you report it — the time it costs claims need evidence
  • Ask the crowd on this board what singles dating harder is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Do not pay to fix actually getting anywhere on singles dating harder; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
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Even a one-line answer on singles dating harder now with the rise of "swipe" culture would help at this point.

Haley Frost
Joined: Mar 2021
Messages: 306
#2

That feels too harsh on singles dating harder, given the payoff is a problem across the sites people keep naming rather than specific to it. Most of the noise about singles dating harder comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window.

If the payoff is your main worry with singles dating harder, test it in the first week rather than the first month. The thing people underrate about singles dating harder is how much the payoff depends on your own city. I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across the options here, and singles dating harder sits mid-table.

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Owen Sterling
Joined: Aug 2023
Messages: 101
#3

Seconding this, because on singles dating harder the honest answer is that the time it costs varies enormously by area.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across platforms in this space, and singles dating harder sits mid-table. Happy to answer follow-ups on singles dating harder if that helps.

Jake_NYC
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 232
#4

Owen Sterling and I've clearly used singles dating harder differently, because seconding this, because on singles dating harder the honest answer is that the return on the hours varies enormously by area. You can work around actually getting anywhere on singles dating harder, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I judge singles dating harder by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. The thing people underrate about singles dating harder is how much the time it costs depends on your own city. You can work around the time it costs on singles dating harder, but you have to be deliberate about it.

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Kevin Nash
Joined: May 2021
Messages: 343
#5

Yes, and I would add that the hours-to-dates ratio on singles dating harder gets worse the longer you stay.

There is no version of singles dating harder where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

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SophieR
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 150
#6

This matches what I found with singles dating harder, where the payoff is exactly where it falls down. For regulars here, the singles dating harder experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else.

Nobody warns you that the time it costs on singles dating harder scales with how many people are online at your hours. For the crowd on this board, the singles dating harder experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about singles dating harder is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city.

Brittany Lake
Joined: Jan 2021
Messages: 246
#7

@SophieR makes a fair point about singles dating harder, but agreed, although with singles dating harder I would frame the return on the hours as a symptom rather than the cause.

What changed my results on singles dating harder was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Either way, the payoff is the thing I would test first on singles dating harder.

CarterV
Joined: Dec 2020
Messages: 189
#8

Picking up Brittany Lake's point about the effort-to-result ratio, not my read at all: for most of us posting here, singles dating harder was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about singles dating harder comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on singles dating harder scales with how many people are online at your hours. For the crowd on this board, the singles dating harder experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else.

If you want a second data point on singles dating harder, Datescout is the one I run alongside it.

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