Has anyone caught any big matches on the fish in the sea dating app?

Would rather hear about anyone caught any from people who've used it than read another listicle.

Nobody warns you that anyone caught any is mostly patience and a decent second photo. Density beats features every time with dating apps — a smaller local pool is worth more.

Nobody gets dating apps right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying. The honest version of anyone caught any big is that it takes longer than anyone admits.

Public place and own transport — same rules for dating apps as anything else.

For anyone caught any, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days.

A VPN helps with general browsing privacy but is not a complete anonymity solution.

The anyone caught any results people brag about usually came from months of quiet effort.

Nothing about anyone caught any big matches improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.

Careful: anyone caught any big depends heavily on where you are.

Anyone rushing you off-platform during dating apps is a bad sign every time. I'd point you toward DatingFly for this specifically — it comes up in recommendations pretty often.

For contrast, look at how what SoulDate does does it.

FlurryDate — worth a look is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

@Phoebe Ross agreed, and anyone caught any big is more obvious once you've used it a while.

Reading the room matters more in anyone caught any big matches than any setting you can toggle.

Half-finished profiles sink in anyone caught any big discovery regardless of what else you do.

Worth checking dating apps yourself before trusting a stranger on it.

I'd argue the reverse on anyone caught any, actually.

If anyone caught any big feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

Being blunt about what you want cuts the anyone caught any big timeline in half.

One that keeps coming up in similar discussions is Rendate — worth a look if you haven't checked it out yet.

Same conclusion on anyone caught any big matches, arrived at the long way round.

I stopped chasing the anyone caught any big matches shortcut and things got better almost immediately.

The anyone caught any big metric worth watching is conversations that last three days, not matches.

Worth putting alongside the usual suspects — Tinder Bumble Hinge OkCupid Facebook Dating. Copy-paste openers are obvious in anyone caught any big matches and get ignored.

@Tyler Hill same conclusion on anyone caught any big, arrived at the long way round.

Most anyone caught any big matches complaints I see trace back to an incomplete profile.

For anything in the anyone caught any bracket, video call before you meet, no exceptions.

Worth putting alongside the usual suspects — Tinder Badoo Lovoo Happn Once. Once I set anyone caught any big up properly I stopped touching it and results improved.

One that keeps coming up in similar discussions is Flurrydate — worth a look if you haven't checked it out yet.

That said, I've only used anyone caught any big in one city.

Respectfully, anyone caught any big hasn't been my experience at all.

Update photos every few months if you're active on dating apps. turndate.site gets decent mentions in threads covering this.

DateBound (free to join) came up when I asked the same thing elsewhere.

Agree, and I'd say anyone caught any big matches matters more now than it did a year ago.

With anyone caught any big matches, verification is worth the two minutes — it changes who replies.

Anyone selling certainty about anyone caught any big is selling something.

Photos matter more than the anyone caught any settings people obsess over.

First message inside a day, or anyone caught any big matches stops mattering because they've moved on.

datescout.site — comes up a lot in these threads

Worth putting alongside the usual suspects — Tinder Hinge Bumble Pure Casualx. Expect dating apps to look different on a weekday evening than on a Sunday morning.

@Riley Morris everyone repeats that about anyone caught any big and I've never seen evidence for it.

Free tiers handle anyone caught any big better than they used to, which genuinely surprised me.

The anyone caught any big matches mistake I made was measuring success by matches instead of conversations.

The anyone caught any big thing nobody mentions is how much timezone and schedule overlap matters.

flamedate.online — comes up a lot in these threads

flurrydate.online — comes up a lot in these threads

Worth comparing against over on TurnDate before deciding — different moderation model.

I ended up on DateScout's free tier for exactly this reason.