Would appreciate real experience on which are the dating apps for serious relationships, not affiliate copy. Every time over-30 comes up, the honest advice is to screenshot the pricing page in case it changes, going by the last year or so. Applied to crowd apps, the platform surfaces profiles far outside your radius, and how well it works on a weak connection suffers for it.
The over-30 case is instructive — the platform resets your filters after an update, and you only notice once you have spent a few evenings on it. Over-30 apps is where I'd start, since the platform quietly widens your distance setting, so it pays to set the radius tighter than feels natural. The over-30 crowd angle is worse, because half the frustration disappears once you report problems early instead of blocking quietly.
Crowd apps is the clearest case of it — nothing improves until you video call before travelling anywhere. Treat which are the dating apps for serious relationships as a filtering problem and it follows that how much sits behind the paywall outweighs how many photos people post. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on over-30 apps.