Final Word on Loveaholics If you were hoping that Loveaholics was going to be that special dating site that was going to change your life and bring you more action than a loose slot machine in Vegas, the reality is going to disappoint you. There simply aren't enough real women on the site to make it worth your time. We rate Loveaholics as POOR. Then again, if you have gone down the path of trying out every online dating site that came your way, chances are that you have had a mixed bag of experiences. So, where does Loveaholics fall in that spectrum? Your best bet to find out would be if you had someone who would take the time to actually join the site, spend days on it testing its platform, interact with its members, and then report back to you. If you are a woman, that might entice you to register for the service. If you are a man, you probably figure that since women can use the site for free, it must be crawling with lustful women just waiting to get their hands on you. You must also provide Loveaholics with a valid email and choose a password to access the site. Once you submit that information, a pop-up window will appear asking you to enter your activation code. This consists of a four-digit number that is sent to the email that you entered on the registration form. Once you have verified your activation code, you have full access to the Loveaholics platform. At that stage, you will be prompted to provide some very basic information about yourself to build your personal profile. You may choose a screen name, enter a status update consisting of 140-characters, as well as provide information about your marital status, ethnicity, body type, and hair color. You can also upload a profile picture. A flirtcast is a preset message that you can send to potential matches in bulk. There are no native mobile apps. Although you can access Loveaholics via a mobile browser, depending on the tech specs of your phone, you might experience performance issues. The layout, design, and navigation of Loveaholics is best suited for a full-sized desktop browser. When you sign in, your home screen will consist of rows of tiled images of suggested matches. Each tile will alert you if the person is online as well as if they have recently joined the site. They also display the age and the approximate distance of the members. In the upper portion of your home screen, you can modify your search criteria by gender, age range, and location. In our opinion, the search functionality offered by Loveaholics is simplistic. The communication features offered by the site are equally as sparse. If a request for a private chat or a message arrives in your inbox while you are online, it will appear as a small pop-up on the bottom of your screen. Any messages that you receive when you are offline will be shown to you by clicking on the message and notification icons on the top navigation bar. However, after you spend a little bit of time attempting to engage on the platform you will realize that the user experience is pathetic. The site sends you promotional messages and chat requests from profiles belonging to purported females. Since men need a paid membership to be able to respond to these messages, guess what? When you click on those messages you will be prompted to pay for an upgrade. Unfortunately, if you do so, you will only discover that the woman behind the profile was nothing more then a promotional chatbot operated by the site. Our male testers sent out a total of 75 message requests over a two-day period. Out of all of those they received a whopping zero replies. It would seem to us that even though women can make full use of Loveaholics for free, there are few real women on the site. Very strange pricing structure indeed! This, however, automatically converts to a one-month subscription and charges you accordingly if you do not cancel. A process which the site makes needlessly cumbersome and complicated. Hmmm, we wonder why? Yes, that was sarcasm.
