Is the okcupid free dating site still worth using after the latest update?

Putting the okcupid free dating site still worth using after the latest update to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. What I care about with okcupid is the paywall more than anything else.

I have tried a few options across the large players already and none of them stuck. Honestly, surprise billing was less of a problem on okcupid than the sheer time it ate.

Specifically, on okcupid I would like to know:

• Do not pay to fix a free tier that is not free on okcupid; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Photos with other people in them do worse on okcupid than you would guess
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — okcupid rewards it
• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on okcupid

Blunt answers on the okcupid free dating site still worth using after the latest update preferred over polite ones.

Picking up Jess_Online's point about the point where it starts charging, i would argue the opposite on okcupid: the point where it starts charging is the one thing it handles better than mainstream platforms. Nobody warns you that a free tier that's not free on okcupid scales with how many people are online at your hours.

You can work around locked messaging on okcupid, but you have to be deliberate about it. I judge okcupid by one thing now: whether the point where it starts charging improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Either way, the point where it starts charging is the thing I would test first on okcupid.

Different experience on okcupid, where locked messaging turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. If surprise billing is your main worry with okcupid, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

You can work around the upgrade nag on okcupid, but you have to be deliberate about it. The pattern I see with okcupid is that the point where it starts charging is fine early and degrades as you go.

That tracks with my okcupid run, which was fine until locked messaging became the whole experience.

The pattern I see with okcupid is that a free tier that's not free is fine early and degrades as you go.

For contrast with okcupid I would look at Datescout; the free tier there behaves differently.

Same experience on okcupid: I gave it six weeks before the upgrade nag got tiresome. For the members answering here, the okcupid experience lives or dies on the pay-to-see-likes trick and almost nothing else.

Honestly, the trial that quietly renews was less of a problem on okcupid than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about okcupid is how much a free tier that's not free depends on your own city. That is my read on okcupid, and others here clearly disagree.

Reading this back, my okcupid notes say almost the same thing about the trial that quietly renews. You can work around a free tier that's not free on okcupid, but you have to be deliberate about it.

For people who have actually tried it, the okcupid experience lives or dies on the trial that quietly renews and almost nothing else. I keep two accounts running to compare a free tier that is not free across the household-name apps, and okcupid sits mid-table. I judge okcupid by one thing now: whether the trial that quietly renews improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

@Luke Foster makes a fair point about okcupid, but disagree, because blaming the pay-to-see-likes trick lets you off the hook — my okcupid results improved when my profile did.

The pattern I see with okcupid is that the pay-to-see-likes trick is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about okcupid is how much locked messaging depends on your own city.

Whitney_B is right about one part of okcupid: different experience on okcupid, where the trial that quietly renews turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I judge okcupid by one thing now: whether the paywall improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

You can work around the pay-to-see-likes trick on okcupid, but you have to be deliberate about it. I keep two accounts running to compare surprise billing across the household-name apps, and okcupid sits mid-table. Not saying okcupid suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

A smaller name people rarely mention in okcupid threads is Luvdate.