Are there any legitimate free international dating sites without payment requirements for messaging?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: legitimate free international dating sites without payment requirements for messaging.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on international dating sites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

The short list of what I need from international dating sites:

• How international dating sites treats requirements once you stop paying
• How long international dating sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether requirements is the reason international dating sites feels inconsistent
• Whether anyone has tested requirements properly on international dating sites
• Whether requirements is worth prioritising over everything else in international dating sites

Will report back with what I find on international dating sites if people are interested.

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

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

I keep the Rendate forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with international dating sites.

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

My rule for international dating sites is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

Read the small print on requirements before you commit to anything around international dating sites.

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

For anyone else researching international dating sites, I would put Datewander's free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

To build on Luna Scott's answer about international dating sites: Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with international dating sites weren't on the biggest platform.

If you go down the international dating sites route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

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