Is the pof online experience as good as it used to be years ago?

Genuine question about the pof online experience as good as it used to be years ago — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. I do not need a feature list on pof online years — I need to know about actually getting anywhere.

I have about a month of using the household-name apps behind me and not much to show for it. You can work around actually getting anywhere on pof online years, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Where I need help with pof online years:

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

Even a one-line answer on the pof online experience as good as it used to be years ago would help at this point.

I would argue the opposite on pof online years: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than the large players. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on pof online years scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on pof online years than the sheer time it ate. The pattern I see with pof online years is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on pof online years scales with how many people are online at your hours.

How I would approach pof online years from scratch:

• Ask the crowd on this board what pof online years is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Block early and report often on pof online years — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; pof online years activity is nothing like flat
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — pof online years rewards it

If you want a second data point on pof online years, Souldate is the one I run alongside it.

Picking up StaceyR's point about actually getting anywhere, disagree, because blaming the payoff lets you off the hook — my pof online years results improved when my profile did. There is no version of pof online years where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

There is no version of pof online years where the hours-to-dates ratio sorts itself out without you doing something. You can work around the time it costs on pof online years, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I will push back here, because pof online years worked fine for me and the return on the hours was never the issue. Most of the noise about pof online years comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window.

The pattern I see with pof online years is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about pof online years is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

Where I differ from Erin Weston on pof online years: broadly agree on pof online years — the time it costs was what decided it for me too. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on pof online years than the sheer time it ate.

Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on pof online years scales with how many people are online at your hours. What changed my results on pof online years was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with pof online years, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

The other one I would try before giving up on pof online years is Datescout.

That feels too harsh on pof online years, given the hours-to-dates ratio is a problem across the apps everyone has heard of rather than specific to it. I judge pof online years by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

You can work around the payoff on pof online years, but you have to be deliberate about it. For most of us posting here, the pof online years experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about pof online years is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city.