Are the best free dating sites better than the paid ones like Match?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: are the best free dating sites better than the paid ones like Match.

Most of what's written about free dating sites is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

The parts of free dating sites I'd want covered:

• How much of the free dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether free dating sites is honest about ones up front
• Whether the matching in free dating sites does anything beyond distance
• How long free dating sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How free dating sites handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Even a 'don't bother' on free dating sites is a useful answer.

Since we're comparing options around free dating sites, Datingfly.online came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Once I sorted out ones, the rest of free dating sites became much more manageable than I expected.

The honest answer on free dating sites is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

Picking up what Ethan Parker said — free dating sites is regional first. I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with free dating sites was the opposite of what's being described here.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Ezhookups solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating sites for me last year.

Adding Flurrydate to the pile for free dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

The cheap test for free dating sites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Someone recommended Flamedate to me during my own search around free dating sites and it was better than I expected.

For free dating sites, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

It's telling how many replies here about free dating sites contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

My experience with free dating sites was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Agreed, and specifically on ones — that is where free dating sites either works or falls apart.