Long-time lurker, first thread — my question is about the ourtime dating site free to just browse around. The ourtime around angle is worse, because the platform recycles the same profiles, and how many first messages actually land suffers for it. The quality of the filters does more work than raw member count, which is the whole problem with ourtime sites.
Nothing about ourtime sites changes the fact that the platform locks messaging behind a subscription, so the numbers on the homepage stop meaning much. Every time around sites comes up, the deciding factor is the number of live users, going by the last year or so. Applied to ourtime, most of the disappointment traces back to the ratio of matches to conversations.
Ourtime is the clearest case of it — the platform quietly widens your distance setting, so it pays to keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. The practical move is to treat an empty bio as a red flag — and that goes double for the ourtime dating site free to just browse around. Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about ourtime sites.