Quick checklist I use when weighing up dating apps:
- whether the privacy settings is honest about what it restricts when you test it against dating apps
- whether the 'last active' timestamps on dating apps is more than decoration
- if the profile prompts is easy to find — worth checking before you commit to dating apps
This has been more helpful than anything I found searching for dating apps, mainly because options for gay men differ a lot by city.
With dating apps specifically, the community skews toward certain apps.
If if daily message limits is genuinely enforced — worth checking before you commit to dating apps isn't there, I don't bother with dating apps at all.
People keep bringing up Flamedate.online whenever dating apps comes up.