I searched the best place to find first, promise, but everything I found was two years old.
Anyone selling certainty about the best place is selling something. If the best place to find feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app. I treat the best place like a numbers game now and it stopped being frustrating.
Safety first always. Meet in public, tell a friend where you're going, and trust your gut. Once I set gay dating up properly I stopped touching it and results improved. Nothing about the best place improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.
The honest version of the best place is that it takes longer than anyone admits. Nobody gets the best place right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying.
Radius too wide is the most common the best place to find error I see people make.
Screen recording during video chats is a real concern. Keep personal identifying details off screen.
Payment requests from matches should always be treated as a scam regardless of the story behind them.
First message inside a day, or the best place to find stops mattering because they've moved on.
Tell a trusted friend where you're going and share your live location during a first meet.
Being blunt about what you want cuts the the best place to find timeline in half.