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How active is the free disabled dating community on niche sites?

Started by Amber Ross04 Jul 2026Dating Apps & Sites5 replies
Amber Ross avatar
Joined: Jan 2024
Messages: 817
#1

Would rather hear it from people who use it: active.

What I actually want to know about active is how much you can do before being asked for a card.

Nobody writing about active seems willing to say what the profiles look like compared with general apps.

What would you do about active if you were starting fresh today?

Jake_NYC avatar
Joined: May 2024
Messages: 845
#2

Used active for the first ten conversations. What the replies looked like was clearly ahead on this one point.

The single change that improved active for me was deciding to read the profile properly before replying.

What I actually want to know about active is what the profiles look like compared with general apps.

A friend pointed me at the Datedesire site when I asked about active; the sign-up was free and quick.

Christina avatar
Joined: Jul 2020
Messages: 841
#3

My experience with active over about a fortnight: what actually happened was about what you would guess.

If you take one thing from this thread on active: set your expectations before you start swiping.

Where I went wrong with active was that I would assume every profile is current.

Datebie's free tier came up a lot when I was researching active, and it held up better than expected.

Josh avatar
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 842
#4

Tried active across about a fortnight and honestly how it played out was about what you would guess.

What helped most with active was that I made a point to treat the first message as a filter.

What I actually want to know about active is whether the community is large enough to matter.

BeccaT avatar
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 838
#5

Same as @Jake_NYC, though I would say how much you can do before being asked for a card is the bit worth testing first with active.

I gave active a month of steady use and what the numbers looked like was worse than the reviews suggest.

The question underneath all of this is whether the app understands the audience it claims, at least with active.

What matters more than the feature list on active is whether the niche label is real or marketing.

If you want another option for active, this one is free to join and does not gate the inbox.

Tyler Brooks avatar
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 843
#6

After a couple of evenings with active, what the logs showed was more consistent than the alternatives.

The fix that worked on active was simple enough — set your expectations before you start swiping.

active stops working the moment you ignore how long ago someone was online.

Skip the upgrade prompt — beyond active

Filters, photos and unlimited messaging are all free on RuneDate. If active brought you here, this is the free way to test it.

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