How do I get plenty of fish free features back?

Bringing how to get plenty of fish free features back here because the blog posts are useless. You can ignore most of the marketing around get plenty and just check how thin it gets in smaller towns at the times you actually log in.

What makes get plenty hard to pin down is that no two accounts of it match. If you're evaluating get plenty, start with whether notifications are useful or noise on mobile — everything else follows.

Practical notes on get plenty if you're short on time:

• Pin down whether last-active timestamps look plausible with the age filter set narrow
• Work out whether replies are open before you finish the profile twice, a week apart
• Compare whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out at the hour you would actually be using it

If get plenty worked for you, what actually happened? Positive and negative all equally useful. Recent write-ups are worth more than any review site.

Going against the thread here: get plenty gets recommended a lot here and that is half right. My rule with get plenty: how much you can do before being asked to upgrade first, everything else second. Datelink these days came up in a similar thread last month.

That's the honest picture of get plenty; ask if you want the detail.

@Wyatt Jackson makes a good point, though I would qualify it — get plenty shifted a lot last year. Two weeks in, how aggressive the upsell gets day to day is what actually mattered for get plenty. The closest thing I found to an honest free tier was the souldate.site crowd.

That's what six weeks of get plenty taught me, anyway.

My read: get plenty is a decent starting point and a poor destination. What nobody mentions about get plenty is what the escalation path looks like. a look at Turndate solved about half of this for me.

The honest test for get plenty is how fast moderation responds outside the big cities, not the feature list.

That's where I've landed on get plenty, may not hold for you.

Going against the thread here: I want to like get plenty more than I actually do. The thing that decides it for get plenty is what share of matches go nowhere on mobile.

That's the short version on get plenty, for whatever that is worth.

Adding to @Wyatt Jackson rather than arguing — get plenty varies more than either of us said. Where get plenty falls down for me is what privacy controls exist outside the big cities. A friend nudged me toward Ezhookups right now and it was not a waste.

My working method for get plenty after a few false starts:

• Watch how the web version differs from the app with notifications switched off
• Time whether replies are open before you finish the profile on mobile data, not office wifi
• Track whether the distance setting is honoured in your own city rather than the default radius
• Test whether replies are open before you finish the profile in your own city rather than the default radius

That's my read on get plenty, though clearly it varies by region.

My read: get plenty is fine if you go in with low expectations. For get plenty, how much you can do before being asked to upgrade is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Ran the identical test on datewander.site out of curiosity.

That's been my experience with get plenty — happy to be argued with.

@alex89 is describing a version of get plenty I have never seen. I judge get plenty almost entirely on how much you can do before being asked to upgrade. People keep recommending datedesire.online; it is at least worth ten minutes.

That's where I've landed on get plenty, anyway.