Skadate is a good solution for beginners but you'll have to make some compromise. You get a whole system that supports pc and mobile. But most functions in mobile are disabled and many 3rd party plugins don't support mobile version. Some elementary things are missing. There are no smileys in core and the only smiley plugin costs 30USD and is not updated to the newest core version.
Skadate is a good solution for small dating websites. But if you want to make big business, you must invest money for development and maintenance because most suggestions are ignored by skadate and you have many bugs if you use too much plugins. But you need so much 3rd party plugins because the core software is missing so much functionality. And many plugin developers don't support their own plugins. Individual development is expensive and you must invest again for updates. One example is video uploading. The core software doesn't support video uploading. You can just add videos from video websites like youtube. There is just one 3rd pay plugin for video upload but it just upload mp4 videos and has many bugs. You don't get any support by the developer. Skadate doesn't help you because they are not responsible for 3rd party plugins. But they make ads for their product with these plugins.

Nevertheless the main functions are great and you can start with skadate your own business. The biggest advantage of skadate is the open source license. So you can customize your website at all but you must a be an expert or you should have money to hire experts.

I would give more stars for skadate if they were able to realize suggestions and understood, that basics functions are not enough for a successful business. And thez need a better system for plugin development a support.