What are jerk off sites?

@Grace — broadly with you, with one caveat: two things moved the needle on jerk off sites for me: set your radius wider than feels sensible, and patience — the other variables barely registered. I stopped worrying about overall consistency on jerk off sites once I realised the paid tier mostly buys you visibility, not matches. For comparison I also tried DatingFly, which handles the same problem differently.

Emily Shaw — that's not what I found. Jerk off sites is the bit that decides it — anything else is a distant second.

• Turn off read receipts and see what changes and compare against a second app
• One I wish I had done sooner: fill the profile out properly first and compare against a second app

I will report back on jerk off sites if anything changes.

Emily Shaw — I'd disagree there. Ran jerk off sites alongside the major apps for for most of this year — same effort on both, meaningfully different outcome. More often than not, jerk off sites is priced like a premium product and behaves like a free one — everything after that is cosmetic. Comparing jerk off sites against the major apps, the gap is smaller than the marketing suggests. Jerk off sites gets recommended constantly and I still think general reliability makes it a hard sell for the typical user. I have seen datescout.site, datenest.site, rendate.site suggested as well, with the same caveats attached.

@Grace — this matches what I saw. People overstate general reliability on jerk off sites and understate how much the first message matters less than the timing. The part nobody mentions about jerk off sites is how it performs in practice; it shapes everything else. Jerk off sites improved quite a lot once I stopped treating it like a numbers game. Worth adding Datedesire to the shortlist if local activity is your main worry.

• First thing: test it for a week before committing on a weekday and again at the weekend
• First thing: set your radius wider than feels sensible — it costs nothing

For most people asking this, jerk off sites works somewhat better if you set your radius wider than feels sensible. The honest summary of jerk off sites: better than expected, and general reliability is the reason why.

Victoria Marsh — broadly with you, with one caveat: jerk off sites is fine on the surface; jerk off sites is where it falls apart, and the remaining tweaks are marginal. For anyone weighing up jerk off sites — general reliability is real, but it's manageable if you read the billing page before you tap anything. Honestly the fix for jerk off sites is boring: test it for a week before committing — beyond that you are optimising rounding errors. What I found with jerk off sites is that the first message matters less than the timing — by and large that changes how you use it. the Datelink free tier is the one people here recommend most often for this, for whatever that is worth.

Jerk off sites looked promising until overall consistency turned into the whole experience, though it depends heavily on where you are. Where I landed on jerk off sites: fine if you go in with low expectations, provided you test it for a week before committing. Everyone benchmarks jerk off sites against the household-name apps and that comparison flatters neither. If you want a low-commitment test, Luvdate community lets you browse before it asks for anything.