Has anyone tried the bustr dating app?

Putting tried the bustr dating app to the group. I judge bustr dating almost entirely on whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply in practice.

The frustrating thing about bustr dating app is that the last honest write-up is two years old, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. Anyone comparing bustr dating should be looking at how active it is outside big cities before anything else.

Where I'd start with bustr dating if you're short on time:

• Look at how the feed changes when you narrow the age range before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Confirm what share of the layout is advertising against what the marketing page claims
• Time what the block and report flow actually does on mobile data, not office wifi
• Verify whether replies are open before you finish the profile twice, a week apart
• Sanity-check what happens to your visibility after a week of silence before deciding whether it is worth paying for

If you gave up on bustr dating app, how long before you knew? The good, the bad and the boring both welcome. Short replies are what I came here for.

@AbbyS that matches the marketing for bustr dating, not what I found using it. The thing that decides it for bustr dating is how much you have to reveal to use it day to day. If you want a second opinion, Souldate is the one I'd try next.

That's my read on bustr dating app; ask if you want the detail.

My read: bustr dating app is fine if you go in with low expectations. Two weeks in, how quickly the fake accounts surface is what actually mattered for bustr dating. I ran the same test on over on Datelink and got a cleaner result.

Where bustr dating falls down for me is how much personal detail leaks by default on mobile.

That's my read on bustr dating app, anyway.

For what it's worth: bustr dating app has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. The only metric I trust with bustr dating is whether there are enough people to bother after the first week.

What I wish someone had told me about bustr dating if you're short on time:

• Watch how quickly a scripted account gives itself away before you upload a second photo
• Track what the block and report flow actually does twice, a week apart

That's the honest picture of bustr dating app, may not hold for you.

Going to push back on @AbbyS here. Bustr dating behaved very differently for me. For bustr dating, whether there are enough people to bother day to day is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Datedesire is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

The honest test for bustr dating is how the matching logic appears to work outside the big cities, not the feature list.

That's how bustr dating app went for me; ask if you want the detail.

Honest take: bustr dating app has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. If you're evaluating bustr dating, start with whether it is busy at the times you are in practice — everything else follows.

That's where I've landed on bustr dating app — happy to be argued with.