Are there any dating sites for 50 year olds that are free to message?

Would appreciate honest takes on dating sites — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

Half the discussion around dating sites is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

Concretely, for dating sites, these are my criteria:

• How dating sites handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• What moderation on dating sites actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether message is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites

If you've actually used something relevant to dating sites, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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

One caution on dating sites — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

For anyone else researching dating sites, I would put Datebound.site on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Hard disagree on the message point. That has not been my experience of dating sites at all.

Turndate is what I ended up using while working through dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Disagree with GabrielJ slightly here on dating sites. The thing that caught me out with dating sites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on dating sites that I don't think survives contact with reality.

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

If dating sites is the question, the Datedesire free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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

The message variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating sites.

I gave up on dating sites twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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

Someone will probably mention Datebound.site before this thread is done.