Speaking generally, expecting any single conversation to work out is the wrong frame — i would not have believed it a year ago. What are the dating apps for 19 year olds who want something serious?
For what it is worth, people reply to something they can ask a question about — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
Asking in a thread like this beats any review site — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.
- Almost immediately I used a nickname rather than my full name for the first few weeks
- My take: checking recent complaints before signing up is five minutes well spent — your mileage may well differ.
- After one bad experience I measured progress in conversations rather than matches, which cut the noise dramatically
- As a rule I stopped treating a quiet week as evidence of anything
Patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — your mileage may well differ.