Are sex finder sites actually effective, or just a massive waste of time?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now sex finder is the thing I can't work out.

What makes sex finder hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring sex finder:

• Whether waste is worth prioritising over everything else in sex finder
• How long sex finder takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How much of the sex finder profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether anyone has tested waste properly on sex finder

Particularly interested in the waste side of sex finder if anyone has been there.

If you are testing sex finder, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

For context on sex finder: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

If sex finder is the question, Datewander.site is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Adding Turndate.site to the pile for sex finder, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Have you looked at the waste side of sex finder yet, or still on the basics?

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with sex finder here is genuinely useful.

Since we're comparing options around sex finder, the Datescout threads came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Someone recommended the Rendate free tier to me during my own search around sex finder and it was better than I expected.

Depends heavily on waste — take that out and sex finder becomes a much easier call.

ZoeyA has a point about sex finder. Strongly agree, and I would add that sex finder looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

Both things can be true about sex finder: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of sex finder for me last year.

Ran into exactly the waste problem when I tried sex finder last year, and it took weeks to work around.

For me the waste side of sex finder was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Watch for the pattern where sex finder is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

For completeness, Datedesire.online sits in the same category for sex finder.