Having tried a few, a month is about the minimum before judging any platform — it took me longer than it should have to work that out. Looking for accounts rather than opinions — even if it contradicts what I said. Are there 100 free dating sites no payment needed to read your messages?
For what it is worth, subscription pressure in the first session is a bad sign — i would not have believed it a year ago.
Speaking generally, patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
- One habit that stuck: I took a break whenever it started to feel like admin, however tempting it was to skip
- After one bad experience I looked at how easy the account deletion process was, which cut the noise dramatically
- After one bad experience I declined every request to move to a messaging app in the first hour before agreeing to anything else
Results vary a lot and a quiet fortnight means very little — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land.