Are there any reliable free foreign dating sites?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about dating sites, so I'm bringing it here.

Most of what's written about dating sites is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating sites:

• How long dating sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How much of the dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether the dating sites experience holds up after the first fortnight

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating sites.

If dating sites is the question, the Rendate community is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

I'd qualify this: dating sites works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

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

For dating sites, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

Depends what you mean by dating sites, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

Disagree with MiaC_online slightly here on dating sites. Broadly with you on dating sites, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

Watch for the pattern where dating sites is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

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

Disagree on one point: dating sites is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

Picking up what MiaC_online said — dating sites is regional first. Took me about six weeks on dating sites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Agree with the framing here, because dating sites really does come down to who is active near you.

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

EllaS, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. Set a deadline when you try dating sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

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

Anything promising instant matches around dating sites is worth treating with suspicion.