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What is the best free dating site for serious relationships?

Started by Derek88 Start date Category Free Dating Replies 8
#1

Testing best free dating site for serious relationships taught me more about product design than about dating.

Things improved for me on the sites in question the moment I took the gap between free signup and free messaging seriously. Still forming a view on best free dating site for serious relationships, so push back if I've it wrong.

#2

Derek88 makes a reasonable case but I have tested best free dating site for serious relationships more recently and it does not match. The honest comparison on dating site starts and ends with the gap between free signup and free messaging.

Tested dating site in practice and the difference showed within days. That is everything useful I have on dating site.

Worth a look at DateLink's free tier if the big apps get pushy with upsells.

#3

Going to disagree with Derek88 here. For me, none of best free dating site for serious relationships came down to what the real price is after the trial at all. The honest comparison on free dating starts and ends with the gap between free signup and free messaging.

Support confirmed part of this about platforms like these when I asked. I will update this if these sites shifts again.

#4

Zoe_Y is right about where the paywall really sits, though I would add that best free dating site for serious relationships still varies by platform.

For platforms like these I look at:

  • whether the free dating site userbase is real inside your radius
  • how quickly platforms like these removes reported profiles
  • how quickly dating site removes reported profiles

Support confirmed part of this about free dating when I asked. I kept a rough note of reply rates on sites of this type, which helped. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on the sites in question.

Someone here mentioned Turndate a while back and it was a fair shout.

#5

My experience with best free dating site for serious relationships wasn't what the reviews suggested.

That's everything useful I've on free dating.

#6

I did the boring version of researching best free dating site for serious relationships so nobody else has to.

Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on the sites in question.

#7

Nobody warned me that best free dating site for serious relationships would come down to how the pricing tiers are structured.

Things improved for me on sites of this type the moment I took the gap between free signup and free messaging seriously. Still forming a view on free dating, so push back if I have it wrong.

#8

Best free dating site for serious relationships turned out to be a much narrower question than I assumed.

My short checklist for sites of this type:

  • whether platforms like these exports your data on request
  • what platforms like these costs once the intro period ends
  • whether platforms like these lets you filter by intent
  • how many free dating accounts look dormant

I checked sites of this type on both mobile and desktop and got the same result. Happy to go into more detail on free dating if that helps.

Someone here mentioned Flamedate itself a while back and it was a fair shout.

#9

The short answer on best free dating site for serious relationships is no, and here is the part that matters. The real gap on free dating comes down to the gap between free signup and free messaging. I ran two accounts side by side on the sites in question to be sure.

Two other people here reported the same thing about the sites in question. Has anyone tried free dating site outside a major city? Worth testing best free dating site for serious relationships yourself before taking my word for it.

Someone here mentioned the Datebie community a while back and it was a fair shout.

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