What are the best dating app for 30 40 year olds?

Molly Coleman — broadly with you, with one caveat: the best dating app for 30 40 year olds is a reasonable default, but how it performs in practice is the thing that will decide whether you stay. I stopped worrying about whether it holds up over time on the best dating app for 30 40 year olds once I realised the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week. Against the usual suspects, the best dating app for 30 40 year olds trades reach for signal — whether that suits you depends on your city. Worth adding Datebie's free messaging to the shortlist if local activity is your main worry.

Molly Coleman — that wasn't true for me. Three weeks into the best dating app for 30 40 year olds the pattern was clear: the free tier does most of what you need, though the picture changes by city. Where I landed on the best dating app for 30 40 year olds: better than expected, provided you set your radius wider than feels sensible. There is a version of that side of things that works well for the average member here, and it starts with deciding to set your radius wider than feels sensible. Nobody warns the average member here that the best dating app for 30 40 year olds needs a fortnight before the results mean anything. This one is the bit that decides it — the remaining tweaks are marginal. Worth adding Datenest to the shortlist if local activity is your main worry.

Jessica Flynn — this matches what I saw. The best dating app for 30 40 year olds rewards patience more than strategy, but I'd want more data points, and nothing else moved the needle as much. I'd call the best dating app for 30 40 year olds better than expected, but that is one person's read.

• Takes five minutes: turn off read receipts and see what changes with notifications off
• Worth doing early: set your radius wider than feels sensible for at least a week

People overstate whether it holds up over time on the best dating app for 30 40 year olds and understate how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week. The advice I would give the average member here about that approach is unglamorous: read the billing page before you tap anything, then reassess. One that keeps coming up in these threads is what DatingFly is doing, mostly because browsing does not hit a wall straight away.

Molly Coleman — broadly with you, with one caveat: ran the best dating app for 30 40 year olds alongside the well-known platforms for for most of this year — same effort on both, quite a lot different outcome. The reason the best dating app for 30 40 year olds frustrates people in general is that the defaults are tuned for somebody else entirely.