Are there any online friendship sites that transition well into dating?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is online friendship sites that transition well into dating.

There's a real gap between how online friendship sites is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

So far I've tried the obvious route with online friendship sites and got nowhere useful.

Breaking online friendship sites down into the parts I can test:

• What the transition side of online friendship sites looks like in practice
• Whether the online friendship sites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How online friendship sites handles transition compared with the bigger names
• Whether transition is the reason online friendship sites feels inconsistent

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

Someone recommended Luvdate itself to me during my own search around online friendship sites and it was better than I expected.

Strongly agree, and I would add that online friendship sites looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

My online friendship sites experience hinged on transition more than on the platform itself.

Jake_NYC, that's roughly where I landed on online friendship sites too. You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about online friendship sites.

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

Took me about six weeks on online friendship sites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

If online friendship sites is the question, the Datedesire threads is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Counterpoint — treating online friendship sites as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

Agreed, and specifically on transition — that is where online friendship sites either works or falls apart.

Are you asking about online friendship sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

I keep the Turndate free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with online friendship sites.