Are there free gay websites that focus on friendship rather than sex?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: free gay websites that focus on friendship rather than sex.

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

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

The short list of what I need from free gay websites:

• How much of the free gay websites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether free gay websites is honest about friendship up front
• Whether the free gay websites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• Whether friendship is the reason free gay websites feels inconsistent
• How quickly free gay websites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Will report back with what I find on free gay websites if people are interested.

Respectfully, I think the framing of free gay websites sets people up to be disappointed.

Since we're comparing options around free gay websites, the Rendate free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on free gay websites are more use than any ranked list.

Picking up what Mason Clark said — free gay websites is regional first. The thing that caught me out with free gay websites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

For anyone else researching free gay websites, I would put Flurrydate on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about free gay websites.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datewander boards solved the messaging-paywall part of free gay websites for me last year.

How long did you give free gay websites before deciding it was not working for you?

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

There is a version of free gay websites that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Datelink is what I ended up using while working through free gay websites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

This tracks. Once friendship enters the picture, free gay websites stops being a simple comparison.

This matches what I've seen with free gay websites, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

Yes — and the reason free gay websites feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

I keep Datebie open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free gay websites.