Madison Reed — broadly with you, with one caveat: for anyone weighing up the down dating app have such terrible reviews — general reliability is real, but it's manageable if you fill the profile out properly first. People overstate day-to-day usability on the down dating app have such terrible reviews and understate how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week.
The down dating app have such terrible reviews keeps coming up here, so I'll add what I have got rather than start another thread. The part nobody mentions about the down dating app have such terrible reviews is overall consistency; it shapes everything else. I stopped worrying about day-to-day usability on the down dating app have such terrible reviews once I realised the app is only as good as the local user pool. What tipped the down dating app have such terrible reviews from frustrating to frustrating for me was one change — turn off read receipts and see what changes.
- Message five people and count the replies with notifications off
- Low effort, high signal: turn off read receipts and see what changes before you judge the pool
- Takes five minutes: check activity at different hours before you commit
- Low effort, high signal: fill the profile out properly first before you judge the pool
Anyway — that is the down dating app have such terrible reviews from where I sit, though your mileage will vary. Turndate is the one people here recommend most often for this, for whatever that is worth.