Lavalife August 2019

The registration process for Lavalife can be a little bit longer and time-consuming compared to other dating sites. Upon registration, you will be asked to give some of your personal information to the site which includes your sexual preference. You will also be required to answer questions about your appearance, your personality, your hobbies, and what you look for in a partner. 

Lavalife has an unusual password requirement that limits you to create a password that has eight characters max. You can use any character you like for your password as long as you meet the character limit.

Along the process, Lavalife will ask you for a username to use for your profile. So if you're planning to sign up, you have to think of a unique and eye-catching username. 

Lavalife values the security of its members. After registering your account, you will receive an email from the site asking you to confirm and verify your email. Only after verifying your email will you then be able to enjoy most of the features of the site. If you haven't confirmed your email within 24 hours, you will be suspended from the site.

In the registration process, you will be asked to fill out some information about yourself. That information is what partially makes up your profile. After you have successfully created an account, you can now update and complete the rest of your profile information. To complete your profile, you will have to prepare a short paragraph about yourself and add interests and places you're most likely to be at. 

Some profile information may vary according to the type of relationship you are looking for. Lavalife has three major profile types: "Casual Dating" profile, "Relationship" profile, and the "Intimate Encounters" profile. Paid members are allowed to create different profile types under one account. 

Profile viewing is free for all, so before sending your likes, you can check a member's profile first and see if you are compatible with each other. When uploading pictures, you can opt to put it in your private photo gallery (backstage), so only selected people can view it. 

Lavalife has a lot of features that are available for standard members. Free features include sending likes and applying search filters. The search filters can be very basic like age, distance, last activity, etc. If you want to have a more specific match recommendation, you can use the advance filters. All of the search filters are available for free.

There are a lot of different ways to get a member to notice you. For standard users, you can always send likes to anyone. But if you want to spark a conversation with someone, a premium upgrade is required for that. Messaging is technically a premium feature since standard users are not permitted to send messages to anyone. Free members can only reply to messages they receive from a premium user.

Interaction with other members can be through messaging, emails, likes, private photo galleries, and video greetings. 

Lavalife is not your ordinary dating site. Aside from its messaging function and search filters, the site also has a lot of different ways to maximize your match-finding game.

You can customize a profile for each of the major profile types. This allows you to give the necessary information needed for casual dating, intimate encounters, and long-term relationships.

This feature will allow you to upload photos privately. The photos you upload privately will only be visible to selected people.

If you go browsing through your match recommendations, and find someone that interests you, click on the member's photo and a sneak peek of his/her profile will appear. This contains info about her zodiac sign and her personality. This will not notify the user that you've viewed them. 

Lavalife has a blog page run by "Ally". The blog contains different articles that are mostly about relationship and lifestyle tips. It also has an "Advice" section where you can submit questions and stories about your lives, and Ally will answer you with a good advice.

Lavalife has a discussion page where people are free to talk about anything that they find interesting. This is a good way of interacting with other members and anyone can use it for free. The Forums are sorted into different categories and topics. You can either join and existing forum, or create a new one.

What makes the app special is the swiping feature that it has. If you go to the "LavaLounge," you will see people who are in your distance radar. From there, you can start swiping through the photos.

You can also choose to view members like how you view them on the website. Generally, the match recommendations in the LavaLounge is location-based, but you can adjust its scope to "Anywhere" if you want to meet people from a different city. 

The app is free to download and is available in GooglePlay and the AppStore.

"I like the idea of the site. It merges all the cool stuff from other social media sites and put it on a dating site. So basically, you get everything in one website. I like how there are a lot of options to interact with other people. Specifically, interacting with the Lavalife community through the forums. Funnily enough, I met my perfect match in the forums section. We started talking about a movie we both liked in one of the forums, and swapped our contact information there. We've been dating for a few months now, and I'm planning to ask her if we can make it official this year. Wish me luck! I'm really glad and thankful for Lavalife. It did not only help me find the perfect girl, but it also connected me to a lot of people that are now my friends. I no longer use the site (since I found the one), but I would still highly recommend it!" - Chase, 25