Is there a dedicated dating app for gay people who want marriage?

Curious where people land on a dedicated dating app for gay people who want marriage, because I keep getting told two opposite things. If actually getting anywhere is bad on dedicated dating app, nothing else about it matters.

I am coming at this from free dating apps, so adjust if that changes your answer. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across the free-tier sites, and dedicated dating app sits mid-table.

Things about dedicated dating app I have not worked out:

• Test actually getting anywhere on dedicated dating app deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on dedicated dating app
• Photos with other people in them do worse on dedicated dating app than you would guess
• Ask LGBTQ+ users in this thread what dedicated dating app is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived

Any first-hand experience with a dedicated dating app for gay people who want marriage is welcome, good or bad.

Yes, and I would add that the payoff on dedicated dating app gets worse the longer you stay.

You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on dedicated dating app, but you have to be deliberate about it. Take that as one data point on dedicated dating app rather than a recommendation.

I keep Flurrydate open as a control while testing dedicated dating app — useful for judging the hours-to-dates ratio honestly.

@Monica_H makes a fair point about dedicated dating app, but not my read at all: for queer daters, dedicated dating app was the only thing that produced anything. I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across no-payment dating sites, and dedicated dating app sits mid-table.

I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across free dating apps, and dedicated dating app sits mid-table. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on dedicated dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about dedicated dating app comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window.

Things I wish somebody had told me about dedicated dating app:

• Compare dedicated dating app against the free end of the market on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Run dedicated dating app beside one other option so you have a baseline for the hours-to-dates ratio
• Do not move off dedicated dating app into private messaging until the time it costs looks handled
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dedicated dating app pool near you is thin
• Message within a day of matching — on dedicated dating app that window closes fast

I read Kevin Nash's reply on dedicated dating app and seconding this, because on dedicated dating app the honest answer is that the return on the hours varies enormously by area. For LGBTQ+ singles, the dedicated dating app experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on dedicated dating app, but you have to be deliberate about it. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across the free end of the market, and dedicated dating app sits mid-table. Either way, actually getting anywhere is the thing I would test first on dedicated dating app.

Picking up Kyle_B's point about the payoff, agreed, although with dedicated dating app I would frame actually getting anywhere as a symptom rather than the cause.

If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with dedicated dating app, test it in the first week rather than the first month. That is my read on dedicated dating app, and others here clearly disagree.

I keep Datescout open as a control while testing dedicated dating app — useful for judging the payoff honestly.

Broadly agree on dedicated dating app — the return on the hours was what decided it for me too. The thing people underrate about dedicated dating app is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city.

I judge dedicated dating app by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on dedicated dating app than the sheer time it ate.