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How do you find the best legit dating sites that don't charge a fee?

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CarterB profile picture
Joined Jul 2020
Posts 19
#1

My experience with best legit dating sites was mixed enough that I want to be specific rather than general.

Anything I recommend around the site has to clear one bar, which is whether the recommendations improve with use.

Reply rate on the site roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether you can hold a conversation without paying never budged.

If you care about how discreet the notifications are, that alone should decide whether it's worth it.

Before committing time to it, work out how thin the pool gets outside big cities.

Anyone tried best legit dating sites on a smaller platform and got a different result?

BrittM profile picture
Joined Mar 2021
Posts 9
#2

What decided it for me with best legit dating sites was whether the free version is a demo or a product.

Deleted and reinstalled the site twice before accepting the issue was what protection exists before you meet and not my profile.

Different crowd on the Datewander community threads, which suited me better.

NicoleG profile picture
Joined Nov 2019
Posts 3
#3

Broadly agree, though I would weight how much data leaves the app higher.

I tested it across two cities and the difference came down to whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.

Assuming you're not paying, whether you can hide your location convincingly is where the service gets tight.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.

Would anyone recommend best legit dating sites to someone starting from scratch?

Someone in another thread pointed me at the Flurrydate community threads and it was a fair shout.

Amanda Stone profile picture
Joined Apr 2020
Posts 12
#4

CarterB covered most of it. The bit I would add on best legit dating sites is below.

If your area is thin, the platform will not fix that, whatever what the subscription actually unlocks looks like.

If you only test one thing on best legit dating sites, make it whether the recommendations improve with use.

The most useful filter on the service was recent activity, not distance, and it changed how the pricing behaves once you are invested completely.

Your mileage on best legit dating sites will vary by city more than by anything else.

the Turndate community threads came up when I asked the same question last year.

DeclanR profile picture
Joined Oct 2018
Posts 13
#5

This is the right question. The answer is mostly how much of the base is genuinely looking.

What separates best legit dating sites from the rest of the field is how the match quality holds up past the first day.

I had a better run on the Datescout boards, for whatever that is worth.

EmmaJ profile picture
Joined Mar 2021
Posts 13
#6

Agree with NicoleG, though best legit dating sites was a bit worse in my case.

Turning off read receipts made the app far less stressful, though it did nothing for whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.

how Datenest handles it came up when I asked the same question last year.

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