Starting a thread on actually met someone decent on the mingle2 app because the existing advice contradicts itself. If met apps is your priority, the deciding factor is the proportion of dormant accounts, at least on my account. The met apps angle is worse, because the platform recycles the same profiles, so it pays to write the bio for one person rather than for everyone.
The met apps case is instructive — the practical move is to ask a specific question in the first message. Same story on mingle2 apps: the platform caps how many searches you run a day, which is why the free tier feels dead after a week. Every time mingle2 comes up, nothing improves until you check whether a profile answers questions or deflects.
Applied to mingle2 apps, most of the disappointment traces back to how far the free tier gets you. My honest read on actually met someone decent on the mingle2 app: the platform hides read receipts on the free tier, and how well it works on a weak connection suffers for it. What am I missing on mingle2 apps?