The short version for anyone skimming this thread on best gothic dating sites:
- whether the 'last active' timestamps on dating sites is genuinely enforced
- if the age filter behaves the way the marketing says — worth checking before you commit to dating sites
- if the match algorithm is genuinely enforced — worth checking before you commit to dating sites
Respectfully Dan, that has not been my experience of dating sites, where genuine profiles are the scarce resource.
I would check if account deletion does anything measurable — worth checking before you commit to dating sites before committing any time to dating sites.
I would frame dating sites this way: quality of conversation beats quantity of matches.
If whether profile verification is configurable at all when you test it against dating sites is not there, I do not bother with dating sites at all.
Luvdate came up when I was researching dating sites and it held up in testing.