Has anyone bought custom content from aprilfoxxx18 before?

Wanted to get some real answers on bought custom content from aprilfoxxx18 before. If you're evaluating custom content, start with how much of the layout is ads in practice — everything else follows.

The frustrating thing about bought custom content is that the last honest write-up is two years old, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. What nobody mentions about custom content is what share of matches go nowhere at the times you actually log in.

The three things that decide custom content after a few false starts:

• Confirm how quickly a scripted account gives itself away before you upload a second photo
• Confirm what the block and report flow actually does and write the answer down
• Confirm how the feed changes when you narrow the age range against what the marketing page claims
• Work out what the block and report flow actually does using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Work out how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands on the first evening, not the first month

If you tried bought custom content and moved on, what should I check first? Enthusiasm and scepticism all fine here. Concrete examples help far more than opinions.

For what it's worth: bought custom content depends almost entirely on your city. Where custom content falls down for me is what the free tier really covers on mobile.

Two weeks in, whether there are enough people to bother is what actually mattered for custom content.

That's been my experience with bought custom content, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

After a fair bit of testing: I want to like bought custom content more than I actually do. The honest test for custom content is how active it is outside big cities once you are past sign-up, not the feature list.

That's what six weeks of bought custom content taught me, for whatever that is worth.

Counterpoint to @Daniel: custom content got noticeably worse after the last redesign. Anyone comparing custom content should be looking at what the onboarding asks for after the first week before anything else. Someone here pointed me at Datewander in particular and it held up better than expected.

My rule with custom content: how thin it gets in smaller towns in practice first, everything else second.

That's the short version on bought custom content; ask if you want the detail.

Not the answer anyone wants: bought custom content is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. You can ignore most of the marketing around custom content and just check whether the block list holds at the times you actually log in. Worth a look at Datebie's free tier if you want a second data point.

Worked for me on bought custom content — happy to be argued with.

@Daniel is describing a version of custom content I have never seen. The only metric I trust with custom content is whether conversations actually go anywhere at the times you actually log in.

I judge custom content almost entirely on how fast moderation responds day to day.

That's my read on bought custom content, for whatever that is worth.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: there's a version of bought custom content that works, and it isn't the default one. The thing that decides it for custom content is whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply outside the big cities.

For custom content, how many active users are within range outside the big cities is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

Worked for me on bought custom content, for whatever that's worth.

Not the answer anyone wants: bought custom content has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. You can ignore most of the marketing around custom content and just check how quickly the fake accounts surface once you are past sign-up.

How I'd approach custom content after a few false starts:

• Count whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Look at whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out on the first evening, not the first month

Where custom content falls down for me is what the day-to-day traffic feels like on mobile.

That's where I have landed on bought custom content; ask if you want the detail.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: bought custom content works, but not the way the marketing implies. The only metric I trust with custom content is how obvious the scripted replies are.

Two weeks in, what happens after you block someone at the times you actually log in is what actually mattered for custom content.

That's how bought custom content went for me, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

My read: bought custom content has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. For custom content, whether you can hide distance and last-active day to day is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Started on the rendate.site crowd and never fully moved off it.

That's my read on bought custom content; ask if you want the detail.