Are there any reliable online dating sites without registration left?

Would appreciate honest takes on online dating sites — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

Nobody writing about online dating sites seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

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

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

• How quickly online dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• How online dating sites handles registration compared with the bigger names
• How online dating sites handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• What happens to your data if you delete a online dating sites account

Any first-hand experience with online dating sites would help more than another list.

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

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

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

How long did you give online dating sites before deciding it was not working for you?

Read the small print on registration before you commit to anything around online dating sites.

The registration element is where people get stung with online dating sites, so check it before anything else.

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

Someone recommended the Ezhookups boards to me during my own search around online dating sites and it was better than I expected.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datenest's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of online dating sites for me last year.

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

The cheap test for online dating sites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

For completeness, Datescout.online sits in the same category for online dating sites.