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@EthanParker130 — I think this is overstated — hidden upgrade prompts causes problems, but solvable ones. The gap between how the usual suspects gets marketed and how hidden upgrade prompts actually gets handled is where the frustration starts. What people miss about dating sites is that how bad the pay wall on messaging gets scales with the size of your city.

What changed things for me on dating sites was treating subscription pressure as the first filter rather than the last. The people I know who got somewhere with getting a conversation started solved the card request first and worried about the rest later.

Someone upthread mentioned Datedesire's free tier — worth a look if you want a second opinion.

The checklist I use for dating sites is pretty short. For the average user, the upgrade nag shapes the whole experience on that side of it rather than being a side annoyance. Comparing the mainstream apps against the rest, the difference shows up in paywalls rather than the feature list. In practice typical dating sites can handle message limits behind payment better than the reviews suggest, at least locally.

For comparison I have also been using Datingfly, which handles this differently.

Yes and no. Some people get hit by the upsell and some never do. Everything about the household-name platforms works fine until you need the card request to hold up, and then it is a coin toss. My rule now is simple: judge american dating sites on message limits behind payment in the first three days or move on. Nobody warns you that the upgrade nag on dating sites is worse in smaller towns than in cities.

What actually predicts whether american dating sites works is how the pay wall on messaging is handled on day one. The average user will tell you the same: it comes down to the pay-to-reply wall in the end. Write one honest line about conversation that goes anywhere in your american dating sites bio and the replies change quality immediately.

Someone upthread mentioned datebound.site — worth a look if you want a second opinion.

I ran this exact experiment with this kind of site earlier this year. The reason dating sites feels harder than it should is that nothing about subscription pressure gets disclosed anywhere obvious. What people miss about dating sites is that how bad hidden upgrade prompts gets scales with the size of your city.

If the goal is getting a conversation started, the only metric worth tracking on this kind of site is the card request. What changed things for me on dating sites was treating hidden costs as the first filter rather than the last.

Three things I look at where the upgrade nag comes into it:

• An unsubscribe link that does not route through a survey if you care about the upgrade nag
• Message limits stated before signup rather than after

If you want a lighter option to test against, Datenest came up a lot last month.

This matches what I found with dating sites. For folks who have been at this a while, message limits behind payment shapes the whole experience on that setup rather than being a side annoyance. The honest position on dating sites is that it comes down to hidden upgrade prompts more than to branding. Am I the only one who found the upsell worse this year?

If you want a lighter option to test against, Datescout (free to browse) came up a lot last month.

Members occasionally point at datebie.online, ezhookups.online too — vet them the same way.

@Logan Brooks — Hard disagree. Blaming paywalls lets the actual problem off the hook. My rule now is simple: judge the whole thing on paywalls in the first three days or move on. For people who date casually, the upsell shapes the whole experience on the whole thing rather than being a side annoyance. I stopped worrying about the standard apps and started judging on the upgrade nag instead, which helped.