How do you join local dating groups on platforms like Facebook?

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

Half the discussion around local dating is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

The parts of local dating I'd want covered:

• What moderation on local dating actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether the matching in local dating does anything beyond distance
• How visible local dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

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

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

Test groups first, because it tells you more about local dating than any feature comparison will.

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

Picking up what TamaraJ said — local dating is regional first. Which parts of local dating have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

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

The thing that caught me out with local dating was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

To build on AmandaH's answer about local dating: If you are testing local dating, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

Adding Turndate's free tier to the pile for local dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Since we're comparing options around local dating, Ezhookups.online came up when I was looking at the same thing.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on local dating that I don't think survives contact with reality.