So I have been single for about 2mo now and I haven’t used dating apps for a few years now and swore I’d never use them again.

I am a very optimistic person and the voice in my head is saying to me “this time it will be different”, however I’m pretty sure I am just setting myself up to be disappointed as being a 37 man on the app.

Idk maybe I should just join some yoga classes and start to be more talkative with woman in the wild instead. Thoughts?

Any suggestions, feedback, or tips welcome!

(30 year old male, based in the UK). Getting alot of matches on hinge but finding it quite hard to land dates and alot of girls are not replying.

Any advice? It almost seems like a lot of people use this for validation haha

Thank you in advance! I would really appreciate a lady’s perspective :)

I've gotten a solid amount of likes but not particularly "my type" or the people in hoping to match with. Are my pictures reaching a different demo than I would hope for? Should I tone them down a bit? Am I just not good looking or is it something else?

Any and all feedback is appreciated 🙏

Context: Im a 24M in a major metropolitan city. I have had quite a bit of consistent success on Hinge and normally maybe 10 matches/month (i think thats good anyway lol), but recently the app has slowed right down and shows me awful, low quality profiles. X'd maybe 30-40 straight last night. I switched the location to NYC briefly and it showed me high quality again, switched it back and back to the low quality again.

I couldn't find a post (only some comments) on here that seemed to address this, but does anyone know if/when Fresh Start will be back? Does anyone currently have access to it? The quality of profiles I'm seeing has gone thru the absolute floor recently and I really don't want to go thru the effort of deleting and remaking, plus it seems like Hinge now makes you wait a while to do that. I was using pretty regularly and getting a lot of success, stopped using (but didnt pause or delete even the app) for around 3 weeks cause I was talking to 2 girls, once that phase ended I came back to nothing but basically bottom of the barrel stuff, been especially poor recently.

Also is there a messaging problem? Has anyone had trouble with messages not going thru or not showing up for a while? Trying to figure out if this girl is a master of flaking or there is a genuine issue. I've had the fonts switch up on me and the app bolded her name as if there was a new message but there isn't one shown. What to do eh?

Let me know your thoughts, many friends (men and women) have reviewed but perhaps they are simply too kind. Thank you all and best of luck out there.

First time downloading a dating app! I haven't really gotten any likes... What do you guys think?

This isn't necessarily a Hinge issue but something ive had happen across all dating apps. I'm a college-aged man that's been on the apps for about 4 years and when I'm active, i'll get about 3 - 5 matches a week. But pretty much all matches I get never show any interest in me. They almost all ghost within a week or two, or if we do end up on a date, they'll ghost me afterwards. And in every conversation I have, I carry it with little to no reciprocation from the other person. Hell even in my personal life i've had women flirt with me or ask me for my number but they never show any interest after that. I just can't see myself ever entering a relationship with someone or getting feelings this way. Using the apps feels tedious now because of how boring the process is.

Does anyone have any advice on this? Is it just the nature of dating apps or am I doing something wrong?