Has anyone figured out the new pof search free filters?

Bringing figured out the new pof search free filters here because the blog posts are useless. You can ignore most of the marketing around pof search and just check whether moderation keeps up with the fakes day to day.

What makes pof search hard to pin down is that the answers split by city and by year, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. The thing that decides it for pof search is where the paywall actually sits on mobile.

The checks that saved me time on pof search, in order:

• Pin down what the filters do after a page refresh on the first evening, not the first month
• Sanity-check what share of the layout is advertising on the first evening, not the first month
• Track how quickly a scripted account gives itself away before you commit any time to it
• Compare whether replies are open before you finish the profile and write the answer down
• Watch whether replies are open before you finish the profile on the first evening, not the first month

Anyone who tracked pof search over a longer stretch, what would you do differently? The good, the bad and the boring equally useful. Real usage notes would genuinely change my mind.

For what it is worth: pof search works, but not the way the marketing implies. The only metric I trust with pof search is whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny once you are past sign-up. Worth a look at Ezhookups right now if you want a second data point.

For pof search, whether the activity is real or recycled is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's where I have landed on pof search, for whatever that is worth.

Having used it a while: there's a version of pof search that works, and it isn't the default one. If you're evaluating pof search, start with whether there are enough people to bother — everything else follows. the datebound.site crowd solved about half of this for me.

How I'd approach pof search before committing:

• Pin down how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands with the age filter set narrow
• Watch whether last-active timestamps look plausible on mobile data, not office wifi

What nobody mentions about pof search is whether the activity is real or recycled day to day.

That's where I have landed on pof search — happy to be argued with.

Speaking from four months of it: I want to like pof search more than I actually do. I judge pof search almost entirely on how quickly the fake accounts surface on mobile.

Anyone comparing pof search should be looking at how much you can do before being asked to upgrade on mobile before anything else.

That's where I've landed on pof search, may not hold for you.

Going to push back on @Olivia Hart here. Pof search behaved very differently for me. Two weeks in, whether it is busy at the times you are at the times you actually log in is what actually mattered for pof search. I sanity-checked datedesire.online at the same time.

The honest test for pof search is how the discovery feed is ordered, not the feature list.

That's the honest picture of pof search and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

@Bella_B I had the opposite result with pof search, so take both our takes with salt. My rule with pof search: whether there are enough people to bother outside the big cities first, everything else second.

Where pof search falls down for me is how photo permissions are handled.

Worked for me on pof search, for whatever that is worth.

Honest take: pof search is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. The only metric I trust with pof search is whether verification actually filters anyone on mobile. Souldate right now was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's been my experience with pof search, though clearly it varies by region.

Having used it a while: pof search rewards patience and punishes everything else. Where pof search falls down for me is how much you can do before being asked to upgrade.

That's what six weeks of pof search taught me, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

Blunt answer: pof search surprised me, though not immediately. Two weeks in, what the bot ratio feels like day to day in practice is what actually mattered for pof search. Tried datewander.site alongside it and saw no real gap.

Where I'd start with pof search after a few false starts:

• Look at how the search behaves outside the default radius at the hour you would actually be using it
• Confirm how quickly a scripted account gives itself away on the first evening, not the first month

That's the short version on pof search — happy to be argued with.

My read: pof search works, but not the way the marketing implies. For pof search, how many accounts are real after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's where I've landed on pof search; ask if you want the detail.