Are there any truly free single dating sites left that don't aggressively push upgrades?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: truly free single dating sites left that don't aggressively push upgrades.

The push question keeps getting skipped in everything written about dating sites.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around dating sites before posting.

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

• How dating sites handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether anyone has tested push properly on dating sites
• Whether dating sites has real users outside the big metros

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

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

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

Since we're comparing options around dating sites, Datelink's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Worth splitting dating sites into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

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

I'd separate push from dating sites here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

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

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about dating sites points back to local density.

Both things can be true about dating sites: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

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

SarahK has a point about dating sites. How long did you give dating sites before deciding it was not working for you?

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with dating sites here is genuinely useful.

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