@Ian put it better than I'd. The only thing I'd add about peak hours is that whether the community is large enough to matter matters more than the feature list.
Tried peak hours across roughly six weeks and honestly what the logs showed was uneven depending on the hour.
Nobody writing about peak hours seems willing to say what the tone is like inside the community.
The question underneath all of this is whether the app understands the audience it claims, at least with peak hours.
If anyone has tested peak hours properly, I want to know how active it's outside the biggest cities.
The part I keep getting stuck on with peak hours is how the niche is treated by the mainstream apps.
Currently splitting my time between here and Datedesire dating for exactly this peak hours reason.
My working notes on peak hours, for what they are worth:
- Treat the first message as a filter — on peak hours that mattered more than anything else
- If peak hours is your only option, at least treat the first message as a filter
- On peak hours, how the pattern went was about what you would guess compared with the alternatives