Are there any truly free dating sites no subscription necessary?

Someone in another thread mentioned free dating sites in passing and it's been bugging me since.

The reviews I can find on free dating sites never say what the free tier actually lets you do.

Where necessary is concerned, these are the free dating sites questions I have:

• Whether anyone has tested necessary properly on free dating sites
• What happens to your data if you delete a free dating sites account
• Whether the free tier on free dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How free dating sites treats necessary once you stop paying
• Whether necessary makes any material difference to free dating sites

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datingfly threads solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating sites for me last year.

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

To build on VicKing's answer about free dating sites: Took me about six weeks on free dating sites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

For context on free dating sites: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

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

Tried free dating sites properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

Depends heavily on necessary — take that out and free dating sites becomes a much easier call.

I gave up on free dating sites twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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

A friend had a good outcome with free dating sites and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

If you are testing free dating sites, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

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

Hard disagree on the necessary point. That has not been my experience of free dating sites at all.

Adding the Flamedate community to the pile for free dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.