Are there no email dating sites that use phone numbers instead?

Different result here, and how anonymous you actually stay in practice is why.

What decided it for me with email dating sites was what the free ceiling looks like in practice.

I tested it across two cities and the difference came down to how discreet the notifications are.

If you can only manage a few evenings a week, whether you can hide your location convincingly matters more than raw volume on the platform.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether people reply or just collect matches.

The closest alternative I found was Datewander.

What RobertV described matches my experience of email dating sites almost exactly.

Two of us compared notes on it and landed in the same place on what a search of your username turns up.

Assuming you're not paying, what happens to your data after you delete is where the site gets tight.

Where email dating sites stands or falls is whether the community polices itself.

Flurrydate - worth a look came up when I asked the same question last year.

Given how whether a phone number is genuinely required behaves, I would only recommend the app to someone with patience.

If you only test one thing on the app, make it whether the recommendations improve with use.

The first message is where the service either works or stops working, regardless of how much of your profile is public by default.

The closest alternative I found was the Souldate boards.

Respectfully, Brittany Moore, I think that's the wrong read on email dating sites.

On paper how much is automated versus reviewed is solved. In practice I hit the same wall three weeks running.

Most comparisons of the platform skip what the app leaks to other members, which is the part that matters.

Turning off read receipts made the site far less stressful, though it did nothing for what the free ceiling looks like in practice.

My rule for the app now is simple: check how discreet the notifications are on day one.

Take that as one data point on email dating sites rather than a verdict.

The closest alternative I found was datenest.site.

Agree with TylerB, though email dating sites was a bit worse in my case.

Most of my useful conversations on the platform started midweek, which says more about how discreet the notifications are than about timing.

Does anyone know whether email dating sites changed this recently?

I had a better run on what DatingFly does with filters, for whatever that is worth.