Where is the best place to find an online dating free chat forum to ask for profile advice?

Been circling place to find an online dating free chat forum to ask for profile advice for a while now. Two weeks in, whether it is busy at the times you are outside the big cities is what actually mattered for online dating.

The part that trips me up on online dating is that no two accounts of it match. I judge online dating almost entirely on what the reporting tools actually do.

The three things that decide online dating:

• Compare whether replies are open before you finish the profile and write the answer down
• Confirm whether replies are open before you finish the profile using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Test how the feed changes when you narrow the age range using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Verify whether the distance setting is honoured against what the marketing page claims
• Sanity-check how quickly a scripted account gives itself away before you commit any time to it

If you gave up on online dating, what did the first week look like? Recent wins and recent regrets all fine here. Regional details are the only thing I can act on.

Disagree with @David Lewis on online dating. The version of online dating I used had none of that. If you're evaluating online dating, start with whether the free plan is usable or decorative after the first week — everything else follows. Started on Datedesire and never fully moved off it.

My rule with online dating: how obvious the scripted replies are first, everything else second.

That's the honest picture of online dating and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

Half agree with @David Lewis. Online dating is fine; the experience around online dating isn't. Where online dating falls down for me is whether conversations actually go anywhere. Souldate right now was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's how online dating went for me, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

Going to push back on @MattW here. Online dating behaved very differently for me. The only metric I trust with online dating is what the search filters can actually do on mobile.

Worked for me on online dating, anyway.

Not sure @VictoriaE and I are talking about the same online dating at all. Anyone comparing online dating should be looking at whether there are enough people to bother on mobile before anything else. For comparison I also spent a week on a look at Datescout.

That's the honest picture of online dating, anyway.

After a fair bit of testing: online dating rewards patience and punishes everything else. You can ignore most of the marketing around online dating and just check how obvious the scripted replies are after the first week. flamedate.online was my control for this, for what that's worth.

That's been my experience with online dating, anyway.

@MattW I wanted that to be true of online dating and it simply wasn't. What nobody mentions about online dating is how many active users are within range on mobile. People keep recommending a look at Datebie; it is at least worth ten minutes.

For online dating, whether there are enough people to bother in practice is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

Worked for me on online dating, for whatever that is worth.

Honest take: online dating gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. The honest test for online dating is how active it is outside big cities, not the feature list. Someone here pointed me at luvdate.site and it held up better than expected.

The thing that decides it for online dating is whether verification actually filters anyone.

That's what six weeks of online dating taught me, anyway.