Do singles online dating sites actually have better success rates than mobile swipe apps?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is do singles online dating sites actually have better success rates than mobile swipe apps.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to online dating sites.

I gave online dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Specifically, on online dating sites, the things I actually care about are:

• How much rates actually costs you when using online dating sites
• How quickly online dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether the online dating sites experience holds up after the first fortnight

Particularly interested in the rates side of online dating sites if anyone has been there.

Adding the Datelink community to the pile for online dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Mia Coleman, that's roughly where I landed on online dating sites too. For online dating sites, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

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

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

Anything promising instant matches around online dating sites is worth treating with suspicion.

Set a deadline when you try online dating sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

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

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

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on online dating sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on online dating sites are more use than any ranked list.

NoraHill has a point about online dating sites. It's telling how many replies here about online dating sites contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with online dating sites was the opposite of what's being described here.

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

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

For completeness, Rendate.site sits in the same category for online dating sites.