Are there any active dating free chat sites left that don't require an email signup?

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

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

My own attempt at free chat lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

The short list of what I need from free chat:

• How quickly free chat puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether signup is the reason free chat feels inconsistent
• Whether signup is worth prioritising over everything else in free chat

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

If free chat is the question, Datebie's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

For anyone else researching free chat, I would put the Flamedate threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Once I sorted out signup, the rest of free chat became much more manageable than I expected.

ConnorM has a point about free chat. Took me about six weeks on free chat before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with free chat weren't on the biggest platform.

I keep Flurrydate itself open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free chat.

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about free chat points back to local density.

The signup part of this is being overstated, because free chat was fine for me without it.

Read the small print on signup before you commit to anything around free chat.

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

My own run at free chat: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.