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I started sceptical a while back, and stopped assuming the obvious answer was right. The variable that mattered was whether messaging is capped — it matters far more in smaller places.

The checklist I ended up with:

• Whether browsing costs anything — I underestimated this at first.
• Look at how easily you can change your location
• Look at whether the distance filter goes wide enough — genuinely worth knowing up front.
• Whether you can delete your account without contacting support — the answer varies more than you would think.

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I ran two at a time for four weeks each in my own time, which is why my answer is not the popular one. Whichever option you pick, the share of accounts that are dormant is easy to check and almost never checked. The contrast was sharpest consistently enough to trust when I compared like for like.

I benchmarked it against what I used before with a couple of accounts, and the results surprised me. In my testing, moderation quality predicts your reply rate better than anything else. It was consistent in a way I could measure in a way that was hard to argue with. Test it cheaply first genuinely, just what held up for me.

Where people go wrong

I looked at what changed since last year once properly, so take it as tested rather than assumed. On the numbers, photo quality on both sides shapes the first fortnight more than anything. It played out the same way fairly clearly even when I varied the time of day.

Concretely, the factors worth weighing:

• Check whether there is a desktop experience at all — the marketing never covers this.
• Check whether you can filter out inactive accounts — surprisingly hard to find out in advance.
• Whether read receipts exist — surprisingly hard to find out in advance.

Staying safe

I approached this the boring way in my own time, before forming any view. Boiled down, how wide the distance filter goes becomes obvious only after a month. The same thing happened every time across the whole period I tracked. Treat it as a starting point on balance, and revise it freely.

I took the unglamorous route without rushing it, rather than just skimming a couple of apps. The short answer is that the share of accounts that are dormant drives the outcome more than luck does. It kept showing up without exception in each of the areas I tested.

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