What are the dating sites for parents that are the most supportive?

Long-time lurker, first post, and it's about dating sites for parents that are the most supportive. The thing that decides it for dating sites is how many accounts are real after the first week.

My problem with every answer on dating sites is that no two accounts of it match, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. What nobody mentions about dating sites is how obvious the scripted replies are day to day.

Where I'd start with dating sites after a few false starts:

• Look at how the web version differs from the app against what the marketing page claims
• Watch what share of the layout is advertising twice, a week apart
• Time what share of the layout is advertising and write the answer down
• Verify what happens to your visibility after a week of silence against one platform you already trust
• Pin down what happens to your visibility after a week of silence on the first evening, not the first month

If you gave up on dating sites, what would you do differently? Successes and dead ends all worth hearing. Recent experiences beat a one-word verdict.

Going to push back on @VictoriaE here. Dating sites behaved very differently for me. You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check what the escalation path looks like day to day.

Worked for me on dating sites, though clearly it varies by region.

Counterpoint to @VictoriaE: dating sites got noticeably worse after the last redesign. The only metric I trust with dating sites is how fast it loads on a bad connection. datebie.online was the other one on my shortlist.

Worked for me on dating sites; ask if you want the detail.

@James Taylor I had the opposite result with dating sites, so take both our takes with salt. Two weeks in, how photo permissions are handled at the times you actually log in is what actually mattered for dating sites. over on Flamedate is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

The honest test for dating sites is whether the block list holds, not the feature list.

That's how dating sites went for me and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

For what it's worth: dating sites is a decent starting point and a poor destination. For dating sites, whether the activity is real or recycled at the times you actually log in is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Luvdate came up in a similar thread last month.

Where dating sites falls down for me is whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply after the first week.

That's my read on dating sites, anyway.

Respectfully @Brody, dating sites has not worked like that in my experience. I judge dating sites almost entirely on how much of the layout is ads.

The checks that saved me time on dating sites:

• Compare how the feed changes when you narrow the age range and write the answer down
• Watch how the web version differs from the app against one platform you already trust
• Count how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands at the hour you would actually be using it
• Count whether the same faces cycle back the next day twice, a week apart

Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at how quickly a new profile gets noticed once you are past sign-up before anything else.

That's where I have landed on dating sites, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

@VictoriaE that matches the marketing for dating sites, not what I found using it. My rule with dating sites: whether moderation keeps up with the fakes on mobile first, everything else second. Started on Datewander these days and never fully moved off it.

If you're evaluating dating sites, start with how obvious the scripted replies are once you are past sign-up — everything else follows.

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

Adding to @EvelynW rather than arguing — dating sites varies more than either of us said. For dating sites, what the reporting tools actually do in practice is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

My rule with dating sites: whether conversations actually go anywhere on mobile first, everything else second.

That's the short version on dating sites, though clearly it varies by region.