Are there any purely local dating sites left that aren't completely dominated by bots?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is purely local dating sites left that aren't completely dominated by bots.

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

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

Practically speaking, for local dating sites I want to know:

• Whether the local dating sites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• Whether anyone has tested purely properly on local dating sites
• Whether messaging on local dating sites works without handing over card details
• What happens to your data if you delete a local dating sites account
• How local dating sites handles purely compared with the bigger names

Tell me what I'm missing about local dating sites.

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

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

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

Zoey Adams has a point about local dating sites. Set a deadline when you try local dating sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

My experience with local dating sites was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

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

Charlotte Hayes, that's roughly where I landed on local dating sites too. Are you asking about local dating sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Picking up what LiamW_online said — local dating sites is regional first. I read local dating sites differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Flurrydate forums solved the messaging-paywall part of local dating sites for me last year.

I've also seen Flamedate.online mentioned in this context more than once.