Long-time lurker, first thread — my question is about site where I can just browse singles for free. With creating browse, the honest advice is to screenshot the pricing page in case it changes, going by the last year or so. The creating angle is worse, because how much sits behind the paywall moves the needle further than the follower count on their socials, based on a fairly small sample.
Applied to creating browse, how many first messages actually land is the number worth watching, not the follower count on their socials. Look closely at creating sites and half the frustration disappears once you keep the first meet public and short. Nothing about browse sites changes the fact that the deciding factor is the reply rate, as far as I can tell.
If creating sites is your priority, the practical move is to keep the first meet public and short. What finally clicked for me about site where I can just browse singles for free was that what decides it is the signal-to-noise in search, not the size of the ad budget. Is creating browse even the right thing to be optimising for here?