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What DA8N does differently.

This page describes DA8N rather than the product you searched for, deliberately and for a stated reason. What follows is specific enough to decide on: what is checked, what is stated, how introductions are made and how distance is handled.

Why this page does not describe Match

Because it has not been verified to the standard this site requires. A claim about another product is published only with the date it was checked against that product's own public description of itself, and an automated check of Match's site was refused, which is their right and not a criticism. Rather than fill the gap with a recollection or someone else's comparison article, the gap stays visible. Their own site is the authority on what they offer.

Verification is mandatory, not a badge

RealMe runs before anyone can message you: a government ID, a liveness selfie and a verification video, checked together. It is not an optional badge that some members carry and others do not, which is the form verification usually takes and the form that does the least good — because the profiles you most want checked are exactly the ones that will not volunteer. A Safety Profile also states what has NOT been checked, since a missing check presented as a clean result is worse than no check at all. This is a statement about identity and nothing more: no verification system can tell you how a person will behave.

Intention is a field everyone fills in

What you are dating for is part of your profile from the first day, rather than something another person infers from your photographs and then raises awkwardly in week three. So is faith, and so is how you think about distance. This costs some of the ambiguity that makes dating comfortable and returns the fortnight people otherwise spend discovering a mismatch neither of them declared.

Introductions that show their reasons

For You explains itself. Every introduction shows the dimensions behind it, including the ones where two people do not already agree — because a difference you can see is information, while a difference hidden behind a compatibility percentage is a number you are asked to trust. Nobody is ranked by what they paid: membership changes what you can see and control, not where you appear.

Distance is a parameter, not an error

Where you live, where you are from and where you are open to meeting are three separate fields doing three different jobs. That is what makes a corridor — Lagos to Manchester, Johannesburg to London, Abuja to Houston — an ordinary case rather than something you have to misstate your location to achieve. Other members see your city, never your precise position.

Questions

Why does this page not compare features?

Because the facts have not been verified to a standard that can be dated, and an undated claim about someone else's product becomes false on its own. The page says what DA8N does instead.

Does DA8N use a compatibility questionnaire?

There is no long quiz and no score. Intention, faith and openness to distance are profile fields, and every introduction shows which of them it was based on, including where two people differ.

Is identity verification optional?

No. It is required for every member before messaging: a government ID, a liveness selfie and a verification video, checked together.

How much does DA8N cost?

Joining is free. Paid membership is priced per market and shown in the app, which is the only place that knows your market and currency — no price is quoted on this site.

Product names are used only to identify the products they belong to. DA8N is not affiliated with, endorsed by or official to any of them, and publishes no ratings of any product including its own.

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