Can you recommend any free online dating services for people who hate swiping?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — recommend any free online dating services for people who hate swiping, and where people actually land on it.

Half the discussion around free online dating is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

Breaking free online dating down into the parts I can test:

• What happens to your data if you delete a free online dating account
• How much of the free online dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether free online dating has real users outside the big metros
• What moderation on free online dating actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether the free tier on free online dating is genuinely usable or just a demo

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about free online dating.

If free online dating is the question, Flamedate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Does services actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for free online dating?

Counterpoint — treating free online dating as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

The services disagreement in this thread says more about free online dating than any single answer.

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

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

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

Agree with the framing here, because free online dating really does come down to who is active near you.

Sebastian Allen has a point about free online dating. What moved the needle for me on free online dating was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.