How do I find local users on the plenty of fish site?

Curious what this board thinks about how to find local users on the plenty of fish site. The thing that decides it for find local users is what share of matches go nowhere on mobile.

Where I get stuck with find local users is that the last honest write-up is two years old, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. Where find local users falls down for me is how the matching logic appears to work on mobile.

My working method for find local users this year:

• Sanity-check how the feed changes when you narrow the age range at the hour you would actually be using it
• Work out how the web version differs from the app against one platform you already trust
• Pin down what share of the layout is advertising twice, a week apart
• Confirm what the filters do after a page refresh twice, a week apart

For anyone still using find local users, was it worth the setup time? Recent wins and recent regrets both welcome. Concrete examples are the only thing I can act on.

After a fair bit of testing: find local users depends almost entirely on your city. Two weeks in, what share of matches go nowhere is what actually mattered for find local users.

You can ignore most of the marketing around find local users and just check whether conversations actually go anywhere.

That's where I've landed on find local users, though clearly it varies by region.

Disagree with @Emma Collins on find local users. The version of find local users I used had none of that. The only metric I trust with find local users is how the interface holds up on mobile. Ended up sticking with Rendate's free tier for the messaging alone.

Anyone comparing find local users should be looking at whether it is busy at the times you are before anything else.

That's been my experience with find local users, may not hold for you.

Adding to @Penelope Wood rather than arguing — find local users varies more than either of us said. For find local users, whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

If you're evaluating find local users, start with whether desktop and mobile behave the same outside the big cities — everything else follows.

That's my read on find local users; ask if you want the detail.

Blunt answer: I want to like find local users more than I actually do. My rule with find local users: how fast moderation responds outside the big cities first, everything else second. People keep recommending Turndate; it is at least worth ten minutes.

What nobody mentions about find local users is how aggressive the upsell gets once you are past sign-up.

That's my read on find local users, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Unpopular view, maybe: find local users works, but not the way the marketing implies. I judge find local users almost entirely on how thin it gets in smaller towns after the first week. Souldate right now was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's the short version on find local users — happy to be argued with.

After a fair bit of testing: find local users gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. The honest test for find local users is what share of matches go nowhere at the times you actually log in, not the feature list. Started on a look at Datedesire and never fully moved off it.

That's the short version on find local users; ask if you want the detail.

Speaking from four months of it: find local users is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. The honest test for find local users is where the paywall actually sits at the times you actually log in, not the feature list.

The only metric I trust with find local users is what the reply rate looks like on mobile.

That's where I've landed on find local users, anyway.