@SavannahJ — broadly with you, with one caveat: do not judge the best dating site for someone over 30 on week one — the paid tier mostly buys you visibility, not matches, and the rest is detail. If how it performs in practice is your main worry with the model they use, the practical move is to read the billing page before you tap anything. The thing that surprised me about the free tier here was how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week. the Datenest free tier is the one people here recommend most often for this, for whatever that is worth.
On the best dating site for someone over 30 — broadly the answer depends more on general reliability than on the app itself. The best dating site for someone over 30 improved somewhat once I stopped treating it like a numbers game.
- Non-negotiable: message five people and count the replies on a weekday and again at the weekend
- Non-negotiable: test it for a week before committing with notifications off
- Fill the profile out properly first with notifications off
I will report back on the best dating site for someone over 30 if anything changes.