Would appreciate real experience on mormon dating sites that aren't owned by the church, not affiliate copy. Nothing about mormon church changes the fact that the platform throttles your visibility unless you pay, so the experience degrades the longer you stay. Look closely at mormon church and what decides it is the signal-to-noise in search, not the follower count on their socials.
The mormon church case is instructive — how often the same faces reappear is the number worth watching, not the app store rating. Applied to church sites, the depth of the profile fields counts for more than raw member count, going by the last year or so.
I judge church sites on one thing: the honest advice is to use a photo that appears nowhere else online, going by the last year or so. My honest read on mormon dating sites that aren't owned by the church: it is worth checking the churn on new sign-ups before you look at the badge on the download page. Numbers on mormon church appreciated if you kept any.