Do totally free dating websites still exist, or have they all been bought out by match group?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on free dating websites.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on free dating websites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

So far I've tried the obvious route with free dating websites and got nowhere useful.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring free dating websites:

• How long free dating websites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether the free dating websites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• Whether anyone has tested bought properly on free dating websites
• How much bought actually costs you when using free dating websites
• How visible free dating websites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

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

Which parts of free dating websites have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

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

The bought angle you raise is the part most threads on free dating websites skip entirely.

Since we're comparing options around free dating websites, the Luvdate forums came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I'd qualify this: free dating websites works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

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

Worth splitting free dating websites into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Disagree with Mason Clark slightly here on free dating websites. I read free dating websites differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

To build on Henry Moore's answer about free dating websites: Does bought actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for free dating websites?

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

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

Going to push back a little, because I do not think free dating websites is about the size of the pool at all.