Is the farmers only dating site still as popular as the commercials say?

Spent the weekend reading about farmers only dating site still as popular as the commercials say and came away more confused. What nobody mentions about farmers only is whether the block list holds on mobile.

What nobody agrees on with farmers only dating is that no two accounts of it match, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. If you're evaluating farmers only, start with how fast it loads on a bad connection on mobile — everything else follows.

What I actually check with farmers only if you're short on time:

• Check how the web version differs from the app before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Watch whether the same faces cycle back the next day at the hour you would actually be using it
• Confirm whether the same faces cycle back the next day using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Verify whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out and write the answer down
• Sanity-check what the block and report flow actually does using a fresh account rather than an old one

For those of you deep into farmers only dating, what would you do differently? Cheerleading and cynicism both welcome. Specific details matter more than star ratings.

My read: I want to like farmers only dating more than I actually do. You can ignore most of the marketing around farmers only and just check how quickly the fake accounts surface in practice.

The only metric I trust with farmers only is what the free tier really covers.

That's the honest picture of farmers only dating, anyway.

Blunt answer: there's a version of farmers only dating that works, and it isn't the default one. Anyone comparing farmers only should be looking at how the pricing is structured in practice outside the big cities before anything else. Started on what Luvdate is doing and never fully moved off it.

My rule with farmers only: whether conversations actually go anywhere once you are past sign-up first, everything else second.

That's what six weeks of farmers only dating taught me, for whatever that's worth.

@BrodyB might be right in principle, but farmers only rarely behaves that cleanly. The thing that decides it for farmers only is what privacy controls exist day to day. I ran the same test on the datebound.site crowd and got a cleaner result.

The quick sanity pass I run on farmers only, in order:

• Confirm what share of the layout is advertising against one platform you already trust
• Count whether the same faces cycle back the next day before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Watch whether the distance setting is honoured against what the marketing page claims
• Check whether last-active timestamps look plausible at the hour you would actually be using it

That's the honest picture of farmers only dating, may not hold for you.

Honest take: farmers only dating is fine if you go in with low expectations. Two weeks in, what share of matches go nowhere is what actually mattered for farmers only.

The honest test for farmers only is how the matching logic appears to work on mobile, not the feature list.

That's my read on farmers only dating — happy to be argued with.

@Logan I had the opposite result with farmers only, so take both our takes with salt. Where farmers only falls down for me is what the search filters can actually do once you are past sign-up.

I judge farmers only almost entirely on whether the app is usable or bloated once you are past sign-up.

That's how farmers only dating went for me — happy to be argued with.

Unpopular view, maybe: farmers only dating is fine if you go in with low expectations. For farmers only, whether the free plan is usable or decorative after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Worth a look at Datelink if you want a second data point.

What I'd tell a friend about farmers only this year:

• Time what happens to your visibility after a week of silence in your own city rather than the default radius
• Look at what the filters do after a page refresh against one platform you already trust
• Count whether the distance setting is honoured with the age filter set narrow
• Confirm how many matches ever send the first message before you upload a second photo

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

Blunt answer: farmers only dating works, but not the way the marketing implies. The thing that decides it for farmers only is how much personal detail leaks by default at the times you actually log in. The closest thing I found to an honest free tier was Souldate.

That's the short version on farmers only dating — happy to be argued with.

Disagree with @Logan on farmers only. The version of farmers only I used had none of that. What nobody mentions about farmers only is how thin it gets in smaller towns once you are past sign-up.

You can ignore most of the marketing around farmers only and just check how many active users are within range.

That's the honest picture of farmers only dating — happy to be argued with.

For what it is worth: farmers only dating gets recommended a lot here and that is half right. Two weeks in, how much you have to reveal to use it on mobile is what actually mattered for farmers only.

That's the honest picture of farmers only dating, though clearly it varies by region.

@HunterP is describing a version of farmers only I have never seen. Anyone comparing farmers only should be looking at whether the app is usable or bloated on mobile before anything else. People keep recommending a look at Datedesire; it is at least worth ten minutes.

The honest test for farmers only is where the paywall actually sits once you are past sign-up, not the feature list.

That's the honest picture of farmers only dating; ask if you want the detail.

@PiperH that's fair in a big city, but farmers only is a different story outside one. I judge farmers only almost entirely on how the pricing is structured in practice in practice.

For farmers only, whether verification actually filters anyone is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's the short version on farmers only dating, anyway.