How exactly does the okcupid free tier work now compared to a few years ago?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: exactly does the okcupid free tier work now compared to a few years ago.

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

My own attempt at free tier lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

My checklist for free tier, in rough order of importance:

• How long free tier takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How much of the free tier profile pool is dormant or fake
• How the years experience on free tier compares month to month

Tell me what I'm missing about free tier.

For anyone else researching free tier, I would put Turndate on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Tried free tier properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

Adding the Datedesire boards to the pile for free tier, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

the Datebound free tier is what I ended up using while working through free tier — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Half the disagreement in this thread about free tier is people using the same words for different goals.

Just flagging that some results you will find for free tier are review farms rather than reviews.

GarrettL, that's roughly where I landed on free tier too. Yes — and the reason free tier feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

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

Have you looked at the years side of free tier yet, or still on the basics?

I keep the Datescout community open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free tier.

Ezhookups.site comes up a lot when free tier gets discussed elsewhere.