Are there any reliable free online personals left on the web?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about free online personals, so I'm bringing it here.

What makes free online personals hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

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

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring free online personals:

• What moderation on free online personals actually looks like when you report someone
• How the left experience on free online personals compares month to month
• How visible free online personals keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether free online personals has real users outside the big metros

Any first-hand experience with free online personals would help more than another list.

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

Someone recommended the Datedesire free tier to me during my own search around free online personals and it was better than I expected.

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about free online personals points back to local density.

If left matters to you then free online personals narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Which parts of free online personals have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

Adding the Ezhookups threads to the pile for free online personals, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Broadly with you on free online personals, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on free online personals yet, which is itself an answer.

For completeness, Flurrydate.online sits in the same category for free online personals.