Has anyone here ever used freedatingsite to find a long-term partner?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on here ever.

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

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about here ever:

• Whether the matching in here ever does anything beyond distance
• Whether freedatingsite is worth prioritising over everything else in here ever
• How here ever handles freedatingsite compared with the bigger names
• What happens to your data if you delete a here ever account

Even a 'don't bother' on here ever is a useful answer.

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

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebie community solved the messaging-paywall part of here ever for me last year.

It's telling how many replies here about here ever contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

Someone recommended Luvdate to me during my own search around here ever and it was better than I expected.

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

Ran into exactly the freedatingsite problem when I tried here ever last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Depends heavily on freedatingsite — take that out and here ever becomes a much easier call.

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

the Datingfly community is what I ended up using while working through here ever — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Picking up what Liam Walker said — here ever is regional first. What moved the needle for me on here ever was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

What's your actual goal here — is here ever about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?