What are the new online dating sites to watch for this year?

Genuine question about the new online dating sites to watch for this year — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. For most of us posting here, the effort-to-result ratio is the whole question with online dating sites.

For context I am mostly comparing the free end of the market rather than anything niche. Most of the noise about online dating sites comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window.

If you have used online dating sites, these are the bits I care about:

• Give online dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling actually getting anywhere a dealbreaker
• Treat your first online dating sites profile as a draft, because the payoff punishes lazy ones
• Message within a day of matching — on online dating sites that window closes fast

Any first-hand experience with the new online dating sites to watch for this year is welcome, good or bad.

@XanderM makes a fair point about online dating sites, but agreed, although with online dating sites I would frame the return on the hours as a symptom rather than the cause.

If the payoff is your main worry with online dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Reading this back, my online dating sites notes say almost the same thing about the effort-to-result ratio. The thing people underrate about online dating sites is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with online dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Either way, actually getting anywhere is the thing I would test first on online dating sites.

Same experience on online dating sites: I gave it six weeks before the payoff got tiresome.

Most of the noise about online dating sites comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window. Happy to answer follow-ups on online dating sites if that helps.

If you want a second data point on online dating sites, DatingFly is the one I run alongside it.

Not my read at all: for most people in this thread, online dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on online dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

For the crowd on this board, the online dating sites experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. I judge online dating sites by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. If the time it costs is your main worry with online dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Yes, and I would add that the time it costs on online dating sites gets worse the longer you stay. There is no version of online dating sites where the hours-to-dates ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

Most of the noise about online dating sites comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window. Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on online dating sites than the sheer time it ate. I judge online dating sites by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

I keep Flurrydate open as a control while testing online dating sites — useful for judging the payoff honestly.