Is the dating com app free to download, and is it worth the storage space?

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EvanH
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 723
#1

I want to be wrong about the dating com app free to download, and is it worth the storage space, so tell me if I am. My problem with dating com app so far has been the upgrade nag.

I have about a month of using the sites people keep naming behind me and not much to show for it. Nobody warns you that the upgrade nag on dating com app scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The open questions I have on dating com app:

  • Ask regulars here what dating com app is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Block early and report often on dating com app — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; dating com app activity is nothing like flat
  • Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — dating com app rewards it
  • Do not pay to fix the paywall on dating com app; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about the dating com app free to download, and is it worth the storage space.

Cassie_W
Joined: Jul 2022
Messages: 515
#2

That feels too harsh on dating com app, given the paywall is a problem across the sites people keep naming rather than specific to it.

The thing people underrate about dating com app is how much a free tier that's not free depends on your own city. You can work around the upgrade nag on dating com app, but you have to be deliberate about it.

RobbieQ
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 586
#3

Building on what Cassie_W said about dating com app, different experience on dating com app, where a free tier that's not free turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. The pattern I see with dating com app is that surprise billing is fine early and degrades as you go.

The pattern I see with dating com app is that the trial that quietly renews is fine early and degrades as you go. I judge dating com app by one thing now: whether locked messaging improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Whatever you pick, judge dating com app on the upgrade nag after a month rather than after a weekend.

My rules for dating com app these days:

  • Do not move off dating com app into private messaging until the trial that quietly renews looks handled
  • Compare dating com app against what is on offer on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what dating com app does about the paywall before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on dating com app if locked messaging is making you anxious about response times
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Felix Grant
Joined: Aug 2023
Messages: 946
#4

Seconding this, because on dating com app the honest answer is that the point where it starts charging varies enormously by area. If the paywall is your main worry with dating com app, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

The pattern I see with dating com app is that a free tier that is not free is fine early and degrades as you go. There is no version of dating com app where the paywall sorts itself out without you doing something. You can work around the pay-to-see-likes trick on dating com app, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The other one I would try before giving up on dating com app is Datelink.

TiffanyR
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 375
#5

Where I differ from Felix Grant on dating com app: that tracks with my dating com app run, which was fine until the point where it starts charging became the whole experience.

I judge dating com app by one thing now: whether the point where it starts charging improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Renee Cross
Joined: Apr 2023
Messages: 133
#6

Agreed, although with dating com app I would frame the upgrade nag as a symptom rather than the cause. If a free tier that's not free is your main worry with dating com app, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

The pattern I see with dating com app is that the paywall is fine early and degrades as you go. There is no version of dating com app where the trial that quietly renews sorts itself out without you doing something. For the crowd on this board, the dating com app experience lives or dies on surprise billing and almost nothing else.

Somebody in another dating com app thread pointed me at Flurrydate and it held up better than expected on surprise billing.

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