Has anyone successfully used the mingle2 app for something serious?

Bringing successfully used the mingle2 app for something serious here because the blog posts are useless. The only metric I trust with successfully used is how many active users are within range in practice.

My problem with every answer on successfully used is that the answers split by city and by year, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. Two weeks in, what the reply rate looks like is what actually mattered for successfully used.

Practical notes on successfully used if you're short on time:

• Confirm how many profiles carry more than two photos on the first evening, not the first month
• Verify how many matches ever send the first message against what the marketing page claims
• Note how quickly a scripted account gives itself away using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Track whether replies are open before you finish the profile on mobile data, not office wifi
• Track whether the same faces cycle back the next day in your own city rather than the default radius

Anyone who tracked successfully used over a longer stretch, what did the first week look like? Good and bad equally useful. Firsthand accounts are worth more than any review site.

@ScarlettP makes a good point, though I would qualify it — successfully used shifted a lot last year. My rule with successfully used: whether desktop and mobile behave the same on mobile first, everything else second. For balance I gave datewander.site the same fortnight.

What I wish someone had told me about successfully used, in order:

• Watch how quickly a scripted account gives itself away and write the answer down
• Count how quickly a scripted account gives itself away at the hour you would actually be using it
• Track whether the distance setting is honoured against one platform you already trust
• Test how the feed changes when you narrow the age range against what the marketing page claims

That's my read on successfully used, for whatever that is worth.

Not the answer anyone wants: there's a version of successfully used that works, and it isn't the default one. If you're evaluating successfully used, start with how fast moderation responds at the times you actually log in — everything else follows. Someone here pointed me at what Datebound is doing and it held up better than expected.

Worked for me on successfully used; ask if you want the detail.

After a fair bit of testing: successfully used rewards patience and punishes everything else. For successfully used, whether verification actually filters anyone outside the big cities is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. A friend nudged me toward Datedesire right now and it was not a waste.

That's the short version on successfully used; ask if you want the detail.

Having used it a while: successfully used gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. Anyone comparing successfully used should be looking at how photo permissions are handled at the times you actually log in before anything else. Ended up sticking with rendate.site for the messaging alone.

That's what six weeks of successfully used taught me, though clearly it varies by region.

Not sure @Mia and I are talking about the same successfully used at all. I judge successfully used almost entirely on whether desktop and mobile behave the same outside the big cities.

That's my read on successfully used, may not hold for you.

Blunt answer: I want to like successfully used more than I actually do. The thing that decides it for successfully used is whether conversations actually go anywhere at the times you actually log in. Genuinely surprised by what Datebie is doing after low expectations.

You can ignore most of the marketing around successfully used and just check how active it is outside big cities on mobile.

Worked for me on successfully used, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

My read: successfully used has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. The honest test for successfully used is whether there are enough people to bother once you are past sign-up, not the feature list. datescout.site is the other name that keeps surfacing.

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

@ColtonK is describing a version of successfully used I have never seen. What nobody mentions about successfully used is how the discovery feed is ordered outside the big cities. I cross-checked against the Datelink community before deciding anything.

Where successfully used falls down for me is how aggressive the upsell gets.

That's my read on successfully used; ask if you want the detail.

Going to push back on @ColtonK here. Successfully used behaved very differently for me. Where successfully used falls down for me is how clean the member base looks in practice.

The thing that decides it for successfully used is what the onboarding asks for at the times you actually log in.

Worked for me on successfully used, may not hold for you.