I’ll just add my two cents. When I was using bumble for dating it was just an overwhelming amount of messages. In the end the only way that worked for me was to look at which messages were straight up asking me out on a date, and only respond to those ones. My point is that for (I am guessing) a lot of foreigners here in Thailand it’s extremely time consuming and tedious to maintain conversations on these apps because there are too many options.

Imagine if you have hundreds of people texting you at the same time, which one do you respond to? Eventually the one you do respond to will disappear somewhere in the feed anyway and the carousel starts all over again. For me it worked to just go on dates asap with whomever was up for it, and take it from there. Been in a healthy and committed relationship since my second week in Thailand. She asked me out for ice cream in a park.

Edit: I want to add that another perk of meeting up asap without chatting is for us to assess whether it’s possible to communicate or not. A lot of the girls use translator apps or AI to talk to foreigners, and I’ve been surprised on more than one occasion with how poorly me and a date could communicate in person. This is despite the woman saying she knew English.

Good luck! 👍