Are there any moderated free dating chat rooms left that aren't totally overrun by bots?

I keep running into the same wall with free dating and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

I don't trust app store ratings on free dating — they're gamed in both directions.

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

Setting overrun aside for a second, this is what I need from free dating:

• How free dating treats overrun once you stop paying
• How free dating handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• What the overrun side of free dating looks like in practice
• How free dating handles overrun compared with the bigger names

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

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

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

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

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

The overrun variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of free dating.

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

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

Ran into exactly the overrun problem when I tried free dating last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Disagree with Addison Wright slightly here on free dating. Test overrun first, because it tells you more about free dating than any feature comparison will.

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

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

If overrun matters to you then free dating narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

A friend had a good outcome with free dating and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

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