What is the best dating app for me if I have a very niche fetish?

A month is about the minimum before judging any platform — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error. What is the best dating app for me if I have a very niche fetish?

The same platform can be excellent in one city and dead in another — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today.

• Speaking generally, metadata in uploaded photos is an easy thing to strip — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
• Desktop version functional?
• Easy profile deletion?

For what it is worth, treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — happy to be argued with on that one.

From where I am sitting, this is what it looked like:

Broadly speaking, referencing something from the profile changes the reply rate noticeably — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today.

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• Something I learned the hard way — I avoided compliments about appearance in the first message
• One habit that stuck: I met in a busy public place for any first meetup right from the first week
• Early on I started to checked whether support answered before becoming a paying customer right from the first week
• From the second month on I remembered that the people who post about success are a tiny sample

Solid question. Honestly, treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — i would not have believed it a year ago. Also seenflamedate.online come up positively in a few similar threads.

Good thread. Speaking generally, if basic messaging sits behind a paywall I move on fast — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error. For what it's worth, Turndate in particular has been my main platform for a while — holds up better than most. Datebound

For what it is worth, results vary a lot and a quiet fortnight means very little — your mileage may well differ.

Having tried a few, a bad week is a bad week, not evidence about the platform — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.

One thing I notice: most quiet inboxes are a bio problem rather than a photo problem — small thing, but it adds up.

Everything that mattered in the end for me:

• As a rule I compared what three different sites offered on their free tier
• From the second month on I accepted that not every match was going to lead anywhere, no exceptions
• Something I learned the hard way — I made sure at least one picture showed me doing something, not posing right from the first week
• Early on I started to referenced something specific from the profile in the first line
• I made a point of told a friend exactly where I was going and when to expect a text, and the difference showed within days

Someone pointed me toward datescout.site and I'm glad they did — cleaner than most of the alternatives. datewander.site