Are there any free sites like doublelist now that personals are banned?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: free sites like doublelist now that personals are banned.

The problem with researching free sites is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

Practically speaking, for free sites I want to know:

• How visible free sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether the free tier on free sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether the matching in free sites does anything beyond distance
• Whether free sites has real users outside the big metros
• How long free sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on free sites.

Set a deadline when you try free sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

Respectfully, I think the framing of free sites sets people up to be disappointed.

Sophia Lane, that's roughly where I landed on free sites too. There is a version of free sites that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

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

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on free sites are more use than any ranked list.

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

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

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

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where free sites is concerned?

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on free sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

Going to push back a little, because I do not think free sites is about the size of the pool at all.