chris n.

UPDATE: Of the "8,404" active accounts, 6,517 are located in Lebanon, Kansas. These accounts are actively sending out duplicate messages en masse, which in order to view you must be a member. The site auto detects and inputs your location when you sign up, so 80% of people (clearly a bot) are being run out of one small city which has a population of 178. Nearly everything about this site after the overhaul is FAKE. Buyer BEWARE.

Update 2: I have "sent messages" in my account I've never sent. I assume whatever bot they're using detects my account as inactive because I haven't sent or read any messages, so now they're sending messages to actually active users on my behalf.

I'm just going to keep updating this thing because it's almost so blatant it's unreal.

The site has never been perfect but you could argue it was previously usable. The webmaster outsourced the work and maintenance of the site to a company called White Label Dating and was played up as a big revamp but the site is less feature rich and harder to navigate than before. To access any messages you need to be a paying member which will run you $30 a month, less if you're willing to commit to 6 months or a year, but I wouldn't recommend it as previously the site had "lifetime memberships" which the webmaster and new management company do not honor.

If you're feeling really generous and lonely you can pay $15 a month so that other members can read and reply to your messages even if they're free users... keeping in mind this is a site that had at most maybe 20-30 active users before this massive paywalling.

To the webmaster: unless you are a major breakthrough dating app, people are not going to pay for BASIC FUNCTIONALITY in a niche subpar dating site. There are other ways to recoup losses if you believed in the work you were doing, but this isn't it. There are free apps which include messaging and matching with OPTIONAL premium features and many more people to choose from and all of them local.

The "video stories" meant to entice users to buy into membership are from people that don't even have accounts on the website. They're fake. The ease of navigation is actually a downgrade. I realize running a domain isn't free but this sort of paywalling will kill the site and make it just another graveyard of fake profiles dating site trying to pull a few bucks out of people lonely enough to find the site on google. Really sad.

There's definitely a place for a niche dating site like this, but it is unusable and basically requesting the same kind of money people use for premium access to an app like Tinder or Bumble while taking away the free functionality.

I've met a couple of women here who were great before the great paywall was implemented, i've bought lifetime membership twice despite its shortcomings... so it's a shame to see the site basically take its last breath if it continues on this course because it is now completely unusable.