@ZoeyQ — broadly with you, with one caveat: honestly the fix for the singles chat avenue website safe from malware in 2026 is boring: read the billing page before you tap anything — everything else is polish. Ran that side of things alongside the major apps for for most of this year — same effort on both, substantially different outcome. Someone upthread mentioned Datebie (free to browse) and I will second it — the free tier is genuinely usable.
- Low effort, high signal: message five people and count the replies with notifications off
- Turn off read receipts and see what changes on a weekday and again at the weekend