I took the unglamorous route without rushing it, so take it as tested rather than assumed. The recurring theme was how much of your social graph it wants — it explains most of the complaints here. The same signal appeared fairly clearly more clearly than anything else I looked at.

I paid attention to the details this time in my own time, which is why I am comfortable saying this. In my testing, how the app handles reports is easy to check and almost never checked.

Things I wish I had checked sooner:

  • Worth confirming how easily you can change your location — this is where the free tiers diverge.
  • Whether there is any verification step at all — I would treat this as a dealbreaker.
  • Look at how many matches reply within forty-eight hours — surprisingly hard to find out in advance.

I tested a handful of these back to back over a few months, which is where the interesting part started. Every time I compared them, how support responds to a real problem becomes obvious only after a month.