This isn't or is a dating site to some people?

Seems as if people are using this website more like a dating site. Which I guess is all ok,but why don't they use dating apps? This is more like a forum. It's cool when someone clicks dgmw
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Edited for clarity
I'm certainly open to meeting some nice people😅

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ViciDraco · 36-40, M

Feels like people are more themselves here. Not that I've ever dated anyone from here. But dating sites are also just rough for men. There's so many dudes on those things that its like being the needle in the haystack. Rarely get messages back. Better to be friendly here and see if anyone shows residual interest. At least here you'll get some socially friendly replies sometimes.

zonavar68 · 51-55, M

@ViciDraco From very early on in my two 'phases' of experiences with dating sites after leaving my first partner and getting with my second (early 2010's) and since leaving my second (2018 onwards), I'm of the view that on most so-called 'dating' sites the rate of 'genuine' men to 'genuine' women is 100 to 1 or much higher, so much so that 'genuine' women can easily get flooded with contact attempts whereas a guy gets nothing and those that do come his way are fakes/scammers/bots. And because there are so many men using the sites, the return on investment for offering paid subscriptions only requires a very tiny portion of men to decide to buy those services to make the sites fully profitable almost from day 1 of their existence. I have never actually had a woman i've dated and met through a dating site admit to buying any paid services. Some sites (like eharmony) appear to make women have to pay just like guys to use all the site features, but I'm sure some others don't.