I keep seeing conflicting takes on recommend sites, so putting it to the group: can anyone recommend sites like camzey that are easy to navigate?
I went in assuming recommend sites would be straightforward and that turned out to be wrong.
Real numbers and real timelines on recommend sites if you have them.
Josh's take does not match what I have seen with recommend sites, because persistence matters more than the choice.
Cutting the profile down to three honest sentences made more difference to my recommend sites results than switching platforms did.
Asking a specific question instead of saying hi made more difference to my recommend sites results than switching platforms did.
Boiling down what I have learned about recommend sites:
I would frame recommend sites this way: habits matter more than app choice.
I would check whether account deletion on recommend sites is honest about what it restricts before committing any time to recommend sites.
With recommend sites specifically, approach outweighs platform selection.
Everything I have learned about recommend sites comes back to one thing — persistence matters more than the choice.
The thing I look at first with recommend sites is how the profile prompts behaves once you actually use recommend sites.
The thing I look at first with recommend sites is whether the onboarding questions holds up under real use when you test it against recommend sites.
With recommend sites specifically, habits matter more than app choice.
Having tried a fair few, I'd say the app is less important than the habits when it comes to recommend sites.
One more data point on recommend sites: Datelink was better than the reviews suggested.
Three things I would look at with recommend sites:
Building on Jake_NYC's point — persistence matters more than the choice.
If whether the privacy settings on recommend sites actually works isn't there, I don't bother with recommend sites at all.
Ezhookups came up when I was researching recommend sites and it held up in testing.
With recommend sites specifically, usage patterns beat feature comparisons.
With recommend sites specifically, technique matters more than the tool.
For contrast I also tried Rendate; different approach to recommend sites, worth comparing.
The honest answer on recommend sites is that technique matters more than the tool.
I'd check if the privacy settings functions without paying — worth checking before you commit to recommend sites before committing any time to recommend sites.
Useful thread on recommend sites — approach outweighs platform selection, and that is the part I will actually act on.
The thing I look at first with recommend sites is if the block and report tools is configurable at all — worth checking before you commit to recommend sites.
On recommend sites, persistence matters more than the choice.
Daily active numbers in your area counts for more than review-site scores, at least in my experience with recommend sites.
The tell with recommend sites is usually whether the profile has any specific detail in it.