Is the coffee meets bagel dating app still popular?

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Jared Stone
Joined: Oct 2023
Messages: 618
#1

Genuine question about the coffee meets bagel dating app still popular — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. The bit nobody covers on meets dating app is genuine daily activity.

For context I am mostly comparing free platforms rather than anything niche. For people who have actually tried it, the meets dating app experience lives or dies on real activity levels and almost nothing else.

Things about meets dating app I have not worked out:

  • Treat your first meets dating app profile as a draft, because the gap between claimed and real users punishes lazy ones
  • Check what meets dating app does about local density before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Give meets dating app a fortnight of daily use before calling the gap between claimed and real users a dealbreaker
  • Compare meets dating app against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Run meets dating app beside one other option so you have a baseline for real activity levels

Any first-hand experience with the coffee meets bagel dating app still popular is welcome, good or bad.

IsobelR
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 455
#2

Reading this back, my meets dating app notes say almost the same thing about local density.

The pattern I see with meets dating app is that local deadness is fine early and degrades as you go.

Brent Olson
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 831
#3

Picking up IsobelR's point about local density, that feels too harsh on meets dating app, given genuine daily activity is a problem across the free end of the market rather than specific to it.

Nobody warns you that local deadness on meets dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about meets dating app comes from people measuring the gap between claimed and real users over far too short a window.

LiamJ
Joined: Jun 2022
Messages: 300
#4

Brent Olson and I've clearly used meets dating app differently, because this matches what I found with meets dating app, where real activity levels is exactly where it falls down.

The thing people underrate about meets dating app is how much local deadness depends on your own city. The thing people underrate about meets dating app is how much the gap between claimed and real users depends on your own city.

For contrast with meets dating app I would look at Flurrydate; the free tier there behaves differently.

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HannahG
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 36
#5

That tracks with my meets dating app run, which was fine until genuine daily activity became the whole experience. I keep two accounts running to compare genuine daily activity across the free-tier sites, and meets dating app sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about meets dating app comes from people measuring real activity levels over far too short a window. If the gap between claimed and real users is your main worry with meets dating app, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Nobody warns you that genuine daily activity on meets dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Chris_A
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 150
#6

Picking up HannahG's point about real activity levels, that tracks with my meets dating app run, which was fine until the count of accounts actually online became the whole experience.

The thing people underrate about meets dating app is how much genuine daily activity depends on your own city. Whatever you pick, judge meets dating app on the gap between claimed and real users after a month rather than after a weekend.

A smaller name people rarely mention in meets dating app threads is DatingFly.

NickT
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 251
#7

Chris_A is right about one part of meets dating app: that has not been my experience of meets dating app, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread.

If real activity levels is your main worry with meets dating app, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Your meets dating app results will vary by city more than by platform.

DanW
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 222
#8

NickT and I've clearly used meets dating app differently, because different experience on meets dating app, where local deadness turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. For people replying above, the meets dating app experience lives or dies on local deadness and almost nothing else.

Honestly, the count of accounts actually online was less of a problem on meets dating app than the sheer time it ate. Take that as one data point on meets dating app rather than a recommendation.

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