What is 100 free dating actually like in practice?

Going to be blunt about 100 free dating actually like in practice because I'm tired of guessing. My rule with 100 dating: how the matching logic appears to work first, everything else second.

What I keep running into with 100 is that it works differently by region, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. The thing that decides it for 100 dating is what share of matches go nowhere.

What I'd tell a friend about 100 dating before committing:

• Pin down how quickly a scripted account gives itself away twice, a week apart
• Track what happens to your visibility after a week of silence before you commit any time to it
• Pin down how many profiles carry more than two photos before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Work out what happens to your visibility after a week of silence with notifications switched off
• Confirm whether replies are open before you finish the profile before you upload a second photo

If you tried 100 and moved on, what would you do differently? Praise and complaints both welcome. Short replies matter more than star ratings.

Blunt answer: there is a version of 100 that works, and it is not the default one. Two weeks in, how the pricing is structured in practice after the first week is what actually mattered for 100 dating. Started on what Datebie is doing and never fully moved off it.

That's how 100 went for me, anyway.

@EmilyG that's fair in a big city, but 100 dating is a different story outside one. Where 100 dating falls down for me is what privacy controls exist at the times you actually log in. luvdate.site landed in much the same place.

Where I'd start with 100 dating this year:

• Time what the block and report flow actually does against what the marketing page claims
• Test how many matches ever send the first message before you commit any time to it
• Check how the search behaves outside the default radius with notifications switched off
• Sanity-check how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands in your own city rather than the default radius

If you're evaluating 100 dating, start with how the discovery feed is ordered after the first week — everything else follows.

That's my read on 100 — happy to be argued with.

Going against the thread here: 100 is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. Anyone comparing 100 dating should be looking at whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny after the first week before anything else. A friend nudged me toward a look at Datenest and it was not a waste.

That's the honest picture of 100, anyway.

Having used it a while: 100 did roughly what I expected, no more. The honest test for 100 dating is whether the block list holds, not the feature list. Someone here pointed me at Datingfly and it held up better than expected.

That's my read on 100, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

Sorry @Carter_K, I've spent longer on 100 dating than that answer suggests. I judge 100 dating almost entirely on how many active users are within range. For balance I gave datedesire.online the same fortnight.

That's where I've landed on 100; ask if you want the detail.