Speaking generally, a bad week is a bad week, not evidence about the platform — others here may have had a different experience. From my side, comparing your results to anyone else's is a losing game — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip. What are the most popular fling apps for quick meetups?
For what it is worth, you have to test it where you live, there is no shortcut — that has been consistent for me across a few different platforms.
From my side, patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — it is the single change that made the most difference.