Has anyone tried the hippiedates platform for free-spirited people?

Trying to make a decision on tried the hippiedates platform for free-spirited people before the month is out. You can ignore most of the marketing around hippiedates platform and just check what the onboarding asks for at the times you actually log in.

What makes hippiedates platform hard to pin down is that every source has something to sell, which is why I want firsthand accounts. For hippiedates platform, what the reporting tools actually do once you are past sign-up is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

What I actually check with hippiedates platform:

• Pin down whether the distance setting is honoured in your own city rather than the default radius
• Time whether replies are open before you finish the profile against what the marketing page claims
• Track whether the same faces cycle back the next day against what the marketing page claims

Anyone with recent time on hippiedates platform, what did the first week look like? The good, the bad and the boring both help me decide. Concrete examples beat a one-word verdict.

Going against the thread here: hippiedates platform is a decent starting point and a poor destination. What nobody mentions about hippiedates platform is how thin it gets in smaller towns once you are past sign-up. flamedate.online landed in much the same place.

Worked for me on hippiedates platform, for whatever that's worth.

Respectfully @WillC, hippiedates platform hasn't worked like that in my experience. My rule with hippiedates platform: how the discovery feed is ordered first, everything else second. For balance I gave rendate.site the same fortnight.

Anyone comparing hippiedates platform should be looking at how active it is outside big cities once you are past sign-up before anything else.

That's where I have landed on hippiedates platform — happy to be argued with.

@NaomiF that matches the marketing for hippiedates platform, not what I found using it. Two weeks in, whether there are enough people to bother at the times you actually log in is what actually mattered for hippiedates platform. Genuinely surprised by what Datenest is doing after low expectations.

That's where I've landed on hippiedates platform, for whatever that's worth.

Speaking from four months of it: I want to like hippiedates platform more than I actually do. The thing that decides it for hippiedates platform is how quickly a new profile gets noticed. I cross-checked against Souldate in particular before deciding anything.

Worked for me on hippiedates platform and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Honest take: hippiedates platform is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. Where hippiedates platform falls down for me is whether the free plan is usable or decorative at the times you actually log in. Datelink these days was the only one that did not gate replies.

My working method for hippiedates platform before committing:

• Look at how the feed changes when you narrow the age range with notifications switched off
• Track whether replies are open before you finish the profile with notifications switched off

That's been my experience with hippiedates platform, anyway.

Short version: there's a version of hippiedates platform that works, and it isn't the default one. If you're evaluating hippiedates platform, start with how clean the member base looks on mobile — everything else follows. a look at Datedesire solved about half of this for me.

That's what six weeks of hippiedates platform taught me — happy to be argued with.