Are free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends?

My take on free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends is unpopular here but it held up.

Anyway — that is the honest version of free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends.

Coming at free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends from the other direction: everything improves once you stop optimising and start replying properly. The honest comparison on friendship sites starts and ends with how much is free versus advertised as free.

Did anyone else find where the paywall really sits got worse recently on online friendship sites? That's everything useful I've on these sites.

Worth a look at DateLink if the big apps get pushy with upsells.

Different angle on free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends, because my situation is not typical.

Would be interested to hear whether friendship sites behaved differently for anyone else.

I keep seeing free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends recommended without anyone explaining how much is free versus advertised as free.

Your situation might change the answer on these sites completely.

That's the standard answer, RobertA, and I think free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends sits outside it. With friendship sites, how much is free versus advertised as free is the first thing I check now.

The difference was smaller on these sites in day-to-day use but still there. The effect was more noticeable on these sites in day-to-day use than I expected. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on the sites in question.

Hunter covered most of it. The only thing I would add about free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends is patience. Things improved for me on online friendship sites the moment I took how much is free versus advertised as free seriously.

I checked friendship sites on both mobile and desktop and got the same result. Is that everyone's experience with friendship sites, or am I the outlier? Happy to go into more detail on sites of this type if that helps.

the DatingFly community came up in another thread and the free tier held up.

Coming at free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends from the other direction: most of the difference is population density, not product design. I would judge online friendship sites entirely on how much is free versus advertised as free and ignore the rest.

I would not have believed this about these sites without testing it. Would be interested to hear whether sites of this type behaved differently for anyone else.

DateDesire came up in another thread and the free tier held up.

If you are asking about free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends because of how much is free versus advertised as free, the answer changes.

I rate these sites on how much is free versus advertised as free and nothing else, once you are actually using it. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on online friendship sites.

Spencer_DAL — that was my assumption too, and testing free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends properly changed my mind.

The reason people end up disappointed by sites of this type is how much is free versus advertised as free. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on free online friendship sites good for finding platonic friends.

For a lighter-weight alternative I have had reasonable results with LuvDate itself.