Your appearance and stats (job, money, height, drug preferences, etc.) aside (as if it is hard enough to convince a woman to like your profile), the dating websites have become a barren wasteland for a multitude of reasons, the most significant of which are serious controls that swing the balance of power away from men and towards women. All of these sites were previously egalitarian and setup in a way that allowed you, as a man, to properly attract a woman through the gift of gab. You could message who you wanted, any length, any frequency, any content (suggestive or not). Well, thanks to the thirst of beta men, women were receiving far too many messages, too many of which went beyond the level of their comfort. As a result, these companies went super aggressive and super SJW in controlling this, as well as penalizing masculine men who knew how to get dates and bed women from these sites.
The first thing they did, which OKCupid did silently for years but eventually admitted to doing, was to control which users you saw in your search results. The controls were based on how the opposite gender rated your profile (read: pictures). If you were getting high ratings (i.e. lots of "YES"'s), you would see high rated women (and everyone lower of course). If you were rated lower, you would not be able to see those higher rated women. And of course, men just rate every damn woman a "yes" due to shotgun theory (the idea that you will at least hit a target with a bunch of bullets as opposed to a single fine tuned shot). Might as well rate everyone "yes" in the hopes that someone rates you "yes". This is how Tinder operates for men - just swipe YES on every girl. The controls that the sites eventually implemented completely go against female biology. Men judge women on looks. Women, sure, they like a good looking guy, but the most successful men aren't the best looking, they are the ones with the most social status (even fat & ugly Jonah Hill is gettin girls because he has social status). Eventually other sites picked up on this idea and implemented it.
The second thing they did was restrict who and how much you could send to a girl. Used to be you could send unlimited messages to anyone you wanted. Yeah, OKCupid prevented people from showing in your searches, but you could at least create a fake "hot" profile, get the likes so you could see those girls, get the link to their profile and message them under your normal profile. Now? Not so much. True, if you dont get a response after 1 message, you are unlikely to get one after 10. But in this age of constant barrage of attention grabbing apps, one message usually isn't enough. And now, the apps restrict how many messages girls can receive. If they have maxed out their inbox, they can't receive more - and they will let you know you can't send them a message.
Another thing they did was allow message restrictions - controls that prevent messages from users based on s h i t in your profile. Plenty of Fish did this. You would try to message a girl and get rejected for the reason that something in her profile settings prevents you from messaging her. It wouldn't tell you explicitly what was preventing it, you just had to look at her profile for what she was looking for a in a date. In most cases it was an age restriction, but the system allowed you to prevent messages on the basis of anything. God forbid we allow the natural attraction of 18-20 year old women with 30+ year old men. We must force 30 year old men to date the undesirable 30+ year old women.
The biggest dagger into the dating apps that really killed them was to completely put the burden of control in the hands of women with regards to messaging. OKCupid followed Bumble's lead - the idea that the first message could only be from a girl. Men can't message first. You can match to your heart's content, but you can't talk to any girl unless they talk to you first. This completely goes against biology - women want men to chase and open them up. Problem with this idea is that women are 1) not natural chasers, and 2) not good at messaging first. The funny thing is that women expect men to have an elaborate first message (on Tinder), but when it comes to women's first message? ROFL!!!! All they send is "hi".
All of these things make men disgruntled. What do disgruntled men do? They just get up, walk and leave and don't come back. (Disgruntled women, on the other hand, will complain and make noise). What happens when all the quality men leave a dating app? The women get disgruntled for lack of choice (since they are in control). All the quality women then leave, and you are just left with what you see...the bottom of the barrel.
This happened with PlentyOfFish (I missed the boat on this one, but this apparently was a paradise for getting laid), it happened with Match.com, OKCupid (this one was great for hooking up), Badoo, CoffeeMeetsBagel. It will happen to Tinder too, if it hasn't already.
The long story short is that online dating is a shell of what it once was. All that is left is Tinder, a site that accepts human biology - the idea that people are just on these apps to get laid. Problem is that they want their cut of the money too so they put in their money making features, which suck. Then, of course, is that the app is riddled with women who think Tinder is for dating and have no desire whatsoever to use it for what it was intended (getting laid).
Frankly, the best way to find a woman is in person. Just go out for a walk, strike up a conversation, go from there.