Does friendfinder com still have an active user base in 2026?

I keep running into the same wall with does friendfinder and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to does friendfinder.

Setting base aside for a second, this is what I need from does friendfinder:

• How does friendfinder handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• How the base experience on does friendfinder compares month to month
• What happens to your data if you delete a does friendfinder account

Will report back with what I find on does friendfinder if people are interested.

If does friendfinder is the question, Flurrydate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Ran into exactly the base problem when I tried does friendfinder last year, and it took weeks to work around.

To build on Benjamin Davis's answer about does friendfinder: Which parts of does friendfinder have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

For context on does friendfinder: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

If you go down the does friendfinder route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Ezhookups free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of does friendfinder for me last year.

Practical suggestion on does friendfinder: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

Adding Datewander.site to the pile for does friendfinder, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Good thread — most discussion of does friendfinder online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

If you are testing does friendfinder, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

Someone recommended the Datingfly forums to me during my own search around does friendfinder and it was better than I expected.