EmilyCarter

I gave this a genuinely fair run with a couple of accounts, before forming any view. Across all of them, whether notifications can be tuned becomes obvious only after a month. The difference persisted reliably when I compared like for like. Your area may behave differently on balance, whether others found the same thing.

I ran this for a couple of months across two cities, before forming any view. Every time I compared them, whether verification exists at all is what people are really complaining about.

I checked this against my own numbers a while back, and the results surprised me. What kept coming up was how much of your social graph it wants, which matters far more in smaller places.

The things that actually moved the needle for me:

• Find out whether notifications can be tuned
• Ask whether prompts give people something specific to answer — this alone ruled a couple out for me.
• Worth confirming how much information is public before you match — I underestimated this at first.
• Look at how the app handles people who never reply — surprisingly hard to find out in advance.
• Whether the filters narrow by anything that matters — most apps are quiet about this.

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