Genuine question about how much can you actually do on the pof from someone who's tried the obvious routes. Same story on pof now: the depth of the profile fields collapses as soon as the platform resets your filters after an update. For pof in particular, the platform shows dormant accounts as active, and the quality of the filters suffers for it.
The pof angle is worse, because you get further if you ask a specific question in the first message. Applied to now sites, the platform resets your filters after an update, so people churn out before anything happens.
If pof is your priority, the deciding factor is the share of verified profiles, going by the last year or so. Anyone weighing up how much can you actually do on the pof should know that the depth of the profile fields matters more than whatever the landing page promises, from what I have seen. What has actually worked for you on now sites, and what would you avoid?