Can someone list the 10 dating sites everyone should avoid?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: can someone list the 10 dating sites everyone should avoid.

The frustrating part about dating sites is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

The criteria I keep coming back to on dating sites:

• Whether the free tier on dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How much of the dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• How the avoid experience on dating sites compares month to month

If you've actually used something relevant to dating sites, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

My own run at dating sites: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

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

Once I sorted out avoid, the rest of dating sites became much more manageable than I expected.

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

Watch for the pattern where dating sites is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

RyanO, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. Both things can be true about dating sites: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

Since we're comparing options around dating sites, the Datescout community came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For dating sites, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

Half the disagreement in this thread about dating sites is people using the same words for different goals.

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