Genuine question about how to use the pof dating site app from someone who's tried the obvious routes. The interests case is instructive — the honest advice is to keep the conversation on-platform until you have met, with the usual caveats. Same story on filter apps: the platform pushes notifications that lead nowhere, and the ratio of matches to conversations suffers for it.
I judge interests apps on one thing: the platform caps how many searches you run a day, so it pays to ask a specific question in the first message. Filter apps is the clearest case of it — it is worth checking the signal-to-noise in search before you look at the badge on the download page. Every time interests apps comes up, the depth of the profile fields is the number worth watching, not the number of features listed.
For interests apps in particular, most of the disappointment traces back to the share of verified profiles. The short version on how to use the pof dating site app is that nothing improves until you check what the free tier gates before investing time. What am I missing on interests filter?