Does anyone still use friendfinder com or is it pretty much dead?

Coming at using friendfinder com from the other direction: the search filters are where the real differences live. Nobody talks about how the moderation actually behaves, and with services of this type it is decisive.

Still worth it with these platforms if you are only checking in weekly? That is my read on using friendfinder com, for whatever it is worth.

Hard disagree with Liam_SEA on this one. whether verification is enforced is the part people overrate with using friendfinder com.

Curious whether others found the same on services of this type.

ZachD, that is fair for most people asking this, but it plays out differently on using friendfinder com for everyone else. The honest comparison on the options here starts and ends with how the moderation actually behaves.

None of this was obvious to me about the options here until month two. Worth testing these platforms yourself before taking my word for it.

The honest answer on using friendfinder com is that most of the difference is population density, not product design. For anyone weighing up the options here, how the moderation actually behaves is the tiebreaker.

The effect was more noticeable on these platforms in real use than I expected. I will update this if services of this type shifts again.

I'd frame using friendfinder com differently to how the question is worded. Everything I got wrong about platforms like these traced back to how the moderation actually behaves.

The difference was smaller on the options here in real use but still there. I checked platforms like these on both mobile and desktop and got the same result. That's everything useful I've on platforms like these.

Anyone comparing using friendfinder com should start with whether verification is enforced, not with feature lists. None of this works with services of this type unless you are patient about how the moderation actually behaves.

I have no stake in platforms like these — this is just what I observed. Happy to go into more detail on these platforms if that helps.

For a lighter-weight alternative I have had reasonable results with EZHookups.

Two years on the current field and using friendfinder com still catches me out. You can ignore most of the marketing around services of this type and just check how the moderation actually behaves.

Two other people here reported the same thing about services of this type. That's my read on using friendfinder com, for whatever it's worth.

Same as ZachD, except using friendfinder com took considerably longer than a week for me.

The real gap on the options here comes down to how the moderation actually behaves. Anyway — that is the honest version of using friendfinder com.

I keep seeing using friendfinder com recommended without anyone explaining whether verification is enforced.

My short checklist for platforms like these:

• what the options here costs once the intro period ends
• how fast a report about the options here gets actioned
• what services of this type costs once the intro period ends
• how the reply rate on the options here holds after week two

Take that as one data point on using friendfinder com, not gospel.

Worth a look at the Flurrydate community if the big apps get pushy with upsells.