What are the best online friendship sites?

Six months in on best online friendship sites and my view has changed twice.

Everything I got wrong about these sites traced back to what the reply rate looks like after week one. Curious whether others found the same on best online friendship sites.

That's the standard answer, Liam_SEA, and I think best online friendship sites sits outside it. I stopped comparing feature lists on these sites and started comparing what the reply rate looks like after week one.

That held true for platforms like these after the first few days, though your mileage may differ. I will update this if friendship sites shifts again.

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

Short version on best online friendship sites: the free tier decides everything and the paid tier changes very little. Nobody talks about what the reply rate looks like after week one, and with sites of this type it's decisive.

Has anyone tried platforms like these outside a major city? Would be interested to hear whether friendship sites behaved differently for anyone else.

StaceyB covered most of it. The only thing I'd add about best online friendship sites is patience. I rate the sites in question on what the reply rate looks like after week one and nothing else, in day-to-day use.

I ran two accounts side by side on friendship sites to be sure. Would be interested to hear whether sites of this type behaved differently for anyone else.

Datebie's free tier came up in another thread and the free tier held up.

My take on best online friendship sites is unpopular here but it held up.

I rate online friendship sites on what the reply rate looks like after week one and nothing else, in day-to-day use. That's my read on best online friendship sites, for whatever it's worth.

I keep Datebie as a backup when the main app goes quiet.

I'd frame best online friendship sites differently to how the question is worded. I stopped comparing feature lists on platforms like these and started comparing what the reply rate looks like after week one. I ran two accounts side by side on friendship sites to be sure.

Support confirmed part of this about platforms like these when I asked. Still worth it with platforms like these if you're only checking in weekly? Your situation might change the answer on the sites in question completely.

That is the standard answer, MargaretL, and I think best online friendship sites sits outside it.

I would judge these sites entirely on what the reply rate looks like after week one and ignore the rest. Happy to go into more detail on the sites in question if that helps.

The reason people keep asking about best online friendship sites is that the moderation quality is the only variable that consistently predicts a good experience.

What nobody said about sites of this type is that what the reply rate looks like after week one changes month to month. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on these sites.

The thing that finally made best online friendship sites make sense was realising you're choosing a userbase, not choosing an app.

For sites of this type I look at:

• whether these sites lets you filter by intent
• what a platforms like these trial converts to, and when
• whether the free tier on online friendship sites includes search filters
• how platforms like these handles photo privacy

I kept a rough note of reply rates on the sites in question, which helped. That's everything useful I've on best online friendship sites.

over on Turndate came up in another thread and the free tier held up.