Do chat dating sites actually lead to real dates or just endless texting?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — do chat dating sites actually lead to real dates or just endless texting, and where people actually land on it.

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

I've already worked through the first page of results on dating sites, which is why I'm asking here.

The parts of dating sites I'd want covered:

• Whether dating sites is honest about endless up front
• Whether anyone has tested endless properly on dating sites
• How quickly dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• What happens to your data if you delete a dating sites account

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

The endless angle you raise is the part most threads on dating sites skip entirely.

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

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with dating sites weren't on the biggest platform.

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

My dating sites experience hinged on endless more than on the platform itself.

StevenK has a point about dating sites. Hard disagree on the endless point. That has not been my experience of dating sites at all.

I keep Datedesire open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating sites.

The honest answer on dating sites is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

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

Respectfully, I think the framing of dating sites sets people up to be disappointed.

Since we're comparing options around dating sites, the Ezhookups boards 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.

StevenK, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. This thread is drifting toward a consensus on dating sites that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where dating sites is concerned?