What is the best way to find a hookup without using an app?

Putting way to find a hookup without using an app to the group. The only metric I trust with way find is whether messaging is open or gated behind credits in practice.

Where I get stuck with way is that the answers split by city and by year, which is why I want firsthand accounts. I judge way find almost entirely on what the day-to-day traffic feels like in practice.

My working method for way find:

• Count whether the same faces cycle back the next day on mobile data, not office wifi
• Test how the web version differs from the app and write the answer down
• Test what the filters do after a page refresh using a fresh account rather than an old one

If you gave up on way, what would you do differently? Successes and dead ends both help me decide. Recent experiences are what I am actually after.

@Harper is describing a version of way find I have never seen. The thing that decides it for way find is how quickly the fake accounts surface at the times you actually log in.

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

Going against the thread here: way has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. Two weeks in, what the day-to-day traffic feels like day to day is what actually mattered for way find. For comparison I also spent a week on over on Datebie.

If you're evaluating way find, start with whether verification actually filters anyone after the first week — everything else follows.

That's what six weeks of way taught me, though clearly it varies by region.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: there's a version of way that works, and it isn't the default one. My rule with way find: how much you can do before being asked to upgrade on mobile first, everything else second. Worth a look at datenest.site if you want a second data point.

Anyone comparing way find should be looking at what the day-to-day traffic feels like before anything else.

Worked for me on way, anyway.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: way did roughly what I expected, no more. Where way find falls down for me is where the paywall actually sits outside the big cities. Ezhookups (ezhookups.online) is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

For way find, whether messaging is open or gated behind credits once you are past sign-up is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's my read on way, may not hold for you.

@Anthony I do not think that is right about way find — at least not everywhere. What nobody mentions about way find is what the escalation path looks like on mobile.

That's how way went for me, for whatever that's worth.

Half agree with @Anthony. Way find is fine; the experience around way find isn't. You can ignore most of the marketing around way find and just check what costs money once you are past sign-up in practice. turndate.site was the other one on my shortlist.

The honest test for way find is whether the block list holds, not the feature list.

That's the honest picture of way, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Speaking from four months of it: way is fine if you go in with low expectations. If you're evaluating way find, start with whether conversations actually go anywhere at the times you actually log in — everything else follows.

How I'd approach way find, in order:

• Sanity-check whether replies are open before you finish the profile before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Test how many matches ever send the first message with notifications switched off

That's where I've landed on way — happy to be argued with.