How do I start meeting women online for serious relationships?

Curious what this board thinks about how to start meeting women online for serious relationships. The thing that decides it for meeting women is how active it is outside big cities in practice.

What I keep running into with start meeting women is that it works differently by region, which is why I want firsthand accounts. My rule with meeting women: how aggressive the upsell gets once you are past sign-up first, everything else second.

What I wish someone had told me about meeting women before committing:

• Look at how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Pin down what the filters do after a page refresh before you upload a second photo
• Verify what the block and report flow actually does with the age filter set narrow
• Note what the block and report flow actually does with notifications switched off

If you have used start meeting women in the last few months, what did the first week look like? Successes and dead ends genuinely both wanted. Actual numbers will save me a wasted month.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: there's a version of start meeting women that works, and it isn't the default one. Anyone comparing meeting women should be looking at what the reporting tools actually do in practice before anything else.

Worked for me on start meeting women; ask if you want the detail.

Blunt answer: start meeting women is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. For meeting women, whether the free plan is usable or decorative is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Ended up sticking with Rendate's free tier for the messaging alone.

That's how start meeting women went for me and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

Half agree with @ChrisJ. Meeting women are fine; the experience around meeting women isn't. The honest test for meeting women is how aggressive the upsell gets, not the feature list. the Souldate community is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

If you're evaluating meeting women, start with what costs money once you are past sign-up — everything else follows.

That's what six weeks of start meeting women taught me, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Short version: I want to like start meeting women more than I actually do. You can ignore most of the marketing around meeting women and just check whether desktop and mobile behave the same.

Worked for me on start meeting women, for whatever that's worth.

After a fair bit of testing: start meeting women is fine if you go in with low expectations. Where meeting women falls down for me is how many accounts are real day to day.

What I'd tell a friend about meeting women, in order:

• Pin down what happens to your visibility after a week of silence and write the answer down
• Test how many matches ever send the first message against what the marketing page claims
• Work out what share of the layout is advertising on the first evening, not the first month

Two weeks in, whether the activity is real or recycled once you are past sign-up is what actually mattered for meeting women.

That's the honest picture of start meeting women and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Not sure @Elijah and I are talking about the same meeting women at all. I judge meeting women almost entirely on how many active users are within range day to day.

That's been my experience with start meeting women, anyway.

@Hunter I wanted that to be true of meeting women and it simply wasn't. What nobody mentions about meeting women is how the pricing is structured in practice on mobile. For comparison I also spent a week on what Datenest is doing.

That's how start meeting women went for me, for whatever that is worth.