Building on what Austin_TX said, how it handles day to day is what separates a good week from a wasted one with tried badoo. Most of the frustration with tried badoo traces back to how often it goes somewhere. Once I stopped worrying about the conversion from match to conversation, tried badoo got a lot simpler.
If the hit rate isn't sorted, tried badoo will not go anywhere.
I judge tried badoo almost entirely on whether it actually works now.
Take that as one data point on tried badoo dating website for meeting people abroad, not gospel.
the DatingFly approach was the closest to what I wanted from tried badoo.