When you search for somebody, you must soon or later find Plentyoffish dating
site, called Plentyofish among part of users. It was estabilished by Markus
Frind, who has made his dating service one of the top ten all around the world,
by being a free online dating site which is constantly changing based upon users
feedback. This dating site is personally selected and you can easily and
quickly meet people you are searching for. For example, this site is the only major dating
web that allows users to block
messages from whole groups of other members whom they are not interested
in. There is not probably any other dating site doing it for its users...
And what is the best - every dating is for free.
My first impression of Plentyofish was when
the site was really easy to set up a profile. It is a 2 pages signing
process; the first page asks you what you would want to be called, what
country you are come from, your pass, and etc. 2 page is where you give
your information ; the form is not so long, and you are asked not only
about yourself, but also what you want to do on a first date, and for a
list of the interests. You have to give your photo as well. You do not
have to upload a photo, but it is always recommended to do it. The
image is sized to 179 x 250 pixels, generous compared to most dating
sites, and a small PlentyOfish logo is here.
My preferred headline in Plentyofish is in the form of a question, and I
noticed that the question mark was stripped from it. It appears that
there is a size limitation of fourty characters for your headline. I
changed it to a shorter statement with an exclamation mark and that
worked fine. On to the most important part of Plentyofish: the search. Do they have
people in my local area? Although the site accepts members from many
parts of the planet, it is geared towards US residents, so I suspect
that there is a greater inventory of US profiles than for other
countries. I was shocked to find no profiles within 100 miles of where I
live. I didn’t believe that could be right, and I decided to remove my
post code from the “Zip Code” box. This did the trick, but there were
still only 37 profiles of women between the ages of 18 and 30 within 100
miles of Cardiff, the city in which I live. It soon became apparent that
all of these profiles were in fact Cardiff residents, so it appears that
the search within 100 miles of your target area doesn’t work for UK
residents, and I would hazard a guess that it only works for USA
searches. Indeed, when I searched for Newport results (the nearest city
to Cardiff, about 10 miles away), I got a whole different search page,
giving 17 more results. This shouldn’t stop you using the service; it’s
just something to bear in mind. Photos tend to be squashed either vertically or horizontally on this
page; I don’t believe I saw any photos that had the right aspect ratio.
I would suggest that if you’re uploading your own photograph to
Plentyofish, you aim to use the right size for your main profile page
(179 x 250, as stated above). The pictures on the search page are 75 x
75 pixels. It’s a shame they didn’t maintain the aspect ratio, as then
the pictures would not have looked squashed. You can upload up to eight
pictures. Photos are reviewed for nudity, and people who upload nude
photographs get their account deleted.
By going to your profile page, you can also search for people that share
your interests by clicking on links there. This didn’t seem to be very
useful, as the search returned worldwide results, and it wasn’t possible
to filter it to local results. Some profiles use crass language on this site, so expect to see it.
There’s no way to report it. If you’re looking to avoid bad language
completely, the only way to do it is to use a paid dating service; see
our review category for more details. You will not be asked for any money to use Plentyofish dating service.
It’s entirely sponsored by advertising. The advertising is unobtrusive,
consisting of high-quality AdSense ads. Sites running AdSense are not
allowed to use intrusive pop-ups or pop-unders that are the bane of many
a web browser experience.
PlentyOfish has extremely active forums that are moderated by volunteers.
If you participate in these, you get further exposure; your photo is
shown to the left of each post. There are well over a million posts on
the complete site at the time of writing, and they cover everything from
dating tips, though cooking and humour, to politics! I will add comments detailing the number of responses that I get on the
live profile that I’ve set up. In the mean time, I would suggest that
Plentyofish is well worth registering for!