Would appreciate real experience on how much can you actually do on the okcupid, not affiliate copy. Look closely at now sites and the platform keeps deleted profiles in search for weeks, and the depth of the profile fields suffers for it. The now sites angle is worse, because how honest the pricing page is is worth more than the price tag, going by the last year or so.
I judge okcupid on one thing: the deciding factor is the number of live users, having tried a handful of these. With okcupid, half the frustration disappears once you read the newest reviews rather than the top-rated ones.
The okcupid case is instructive — the ratio of matches to conversations is the number worth watching, not star ratings from strangers. My honest read on how much can you actually do on the okcupid: the honest advice is to compare two platforms in the same fortnight, though I would want someone to check me on this. Is okcupid even the right thing to be optimising for here?