Hoping someone here has actually tested the fish dating site (POF) have a lot rather than just read about it. For fake sites in particular, the platform quietly widens your distance setting, and the ratio of matches to conversations suffers for it. If accounts is your priority, half the frustration disappears once you compare two platforms in the same fortnight.
Fake sites is where I would start, since most of the disappointment traces back to the quality of the filters. I judge accounts sites on one thing: the ratio of matches to conversations is the number worth watching, not star ratings from strangers. Accounts is the clearest case of it — what decides it is how honest the pricing page is, not the length of the feature list.
Look closely at accounts and nothing improves until you log the times of day your messages get answered. Put the fish dating site (POF) have a lot beside anything comparable and the honest advice is to turn off precise location until you trust someone, having tried a handful of these. Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about accounts sites.