Would appreciate real experience on current hot dating apps, not affiliate copy. I judge hot current on one thing: the amount of recycled content is the number worth watching, not the marketing copy. Hot is the clearest case of it — the deciding factor is how much sits behind the paywall, in my experience.
Look closely at hot apps and the signal-to-noise in search collapses as soon as the platform resets your filters after an update. Applied to current apps, the proportion of dormant accounts is worth more than raw member count.
With hot current, the platform recycles the same profiles, and the time it takes to get a first reply suffers for it. Put current hot dating apps beside anything comparable and half the frustration disappears once you test the search filters before uploading anything. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on current apps.