Starting a thread on free matchmaking services effective because the existing advice contradicts itself. Look closely at effective and the practical move is to keep a note of what you actually spent. Every time matchmaking mainstream apps comes up, the depth of the profile fields collapses as soon as the platform recycles the same profiles.
If effective is your priority, the gap between sign-ups and active users beats the follower count on their socials. The effective matchmaking case is instructive — the platform counts a like as a match, so it pays to compare two platforms in the same fortnight. Applied to matchmaking mainstream apps, what decides it is the time it takes to get a first reply, not how slick the interface looks.
Effective mainstream apps is the clearest case of it — the deciding factor is the churn on new sign-ups, going by the last year or so. Nothing improves until you ask a specific question in the first message — and that goes double for free matchmaking services effective. Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong question about effective matchmaking.