What are some genuine dating sites?

My take on genuine dating sites is unpopular here but it held up.

I would judge these sites entirely on how much of it is usable before you pay and ignore the rest. I will update this if genuine dating sites shifts again.

Respectfully, Liam_SEA, that hasn't been true of genuine dating sites since last year.

Three things worth verifying on genuine dating sites:

• whether photos on the sites in question can be limited to matches only
• how the reply rate on sites of this type holds after week two
• whether dating sites lets you filter by intent
• whether dating sites exports your data on request

Worth noting that dating sites changed after their last update. Worth noting that sites of this type changed after their last update. Worth testing these sites yourself before taking my word for it.

Read four threads on genuine dating sites and they all skipped how the moderation actually behaves.

What I check before committing to platforms like these:

• how quickly genuine dating sites removes reported profiles
• what dating sites costs once the intro period ends
• how platforms like these treats a paused account
• what happens to your data if you delete a genuine dating account

Still worth it with these sites if you're only checking in weekly? Would be interested to hear whether genuine dating behaved differently for anyone else.

Going to disagree with Kayla1990 here. For me, none of genuine dating sites came down to how much personal data it asks for at all.

Three things worth verifying on genuine dating:

• whether photos on these sites can be limited to matches only
• whether sites of this type shows read receipts on the free tier
• what a the sites in question trial converts to, and when
• how the platforms like these feed changes after the first week

The effect was more noticeable on sites of this type in real use than I expected. How long did the sites in question take before anyone here got a real reply? That's where I landed on genuine dating sites after actually trying it.

Pushing back on DebbieH: how much personal data it asks for is not the deciding factor with genuine dating sites, reach is.

Half the confusion around these sites disappears once you separate how much of it is usable before you pay from the marketing. Take that as one data point on genuine dating, not gospel.

Comparing against Datebie's free tier helped me see what the paywall was actually doing.

I went round in circles on genuine dating sites before anything clicked. What nobody said about genuine dating is that how much of it's usable before you pay changes month to month.

The effect was more noticeable on platforms like these in real use than I expected. Still forming a view on sites of this type, so push back if I've it wrong.

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

Short version on genuine dating sites: two platforms with identical features can behave nothing alike. Two things matter for genuine dating sites: how much of it is usable before you pay, and then patience.

Someone will disagree, and on how much of it is usable before you pay with sites of this type they might be right. This is four months of steady use on the sites in question, not a trial run. Still forming a view on the sites in question, so push back if I have it wrong.

Started looking into genuine dating sites for a friend and ended up switching myself.

You can ignore most of the marketing around these sites and just check how much of it is usable before you pay. Your situation might change the answer on these sites completely.

Genuine dating sites turned out to be a much narrower question than I assumed.

For people in this situation, how much of it's usable before you pay is the whole question with genuine dating sites. Worth testing genuine dating sites yourself before taking my word for it.

Comparing against DateLink helped me see what the paywall was actually doing.