Are there any legitimate dating sites without email verification?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on dating sites.

Nobody writing about dating sites seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched dating sites.

Breaking dating sites down into the parts I can test:

• Whether verification is the reason dating sites feels inconsistent
• How dating sites handles verification compared with the bigger names
• How quickly dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether anyone has tested verification properly on dating sites

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

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

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on dating sites yet, which is itself an answer.

To build on AbbyRoss88's answer about dating sites: Does verification actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for dating sites?

What moved the needle for me on dating sites was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

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

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

I met my partner through something adjacent to dating sites, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

I keep the Datewander threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating sites.

The verification disagreement in this thread says more about dating sites than any single answer.

Practical suggestion on dating sites: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.