This has been bugging me for weeks, so: free apps like tinder. With tinder apps, the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, which explains most of the complaints in threads like this. Applied to tinder, the honest advice is to test the search filters before uploading anything, for what it is worth.
Look closely at tinder and the practical move is to set the radius tighter than feels natural. Same story on tinder: the ratio of matches to conversations is the number worth watching, not the price tag.
The tinder case is instructive — the platform resets your filters after an update, and the ratio of matches to conversations suffers for it. What finally clicked for me about free apps like tinder was that you get further if you use a photo that appears nowhere else online. If you have been through the tinder apps version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.