How has the landscape of the free dating web changed over the last five years?

I've spent about three months poking at free dating and I still don't have a clean answer.

Nothing I can find on free dating addresses landscape in any depth.

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

Practically speaking, for free dating I want to know:

• Whether the free dating experience holds up after the first fortnight
• What happens to your data if you delete a free dating account
• How visible free dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether anyone has tested landscape properly on free dating

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

I'd separate landscape from free dating here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

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

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on free dating yet, which is itself an answer.

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with free dating weren't on the biggest platform.

Took me about six weeks on free dating before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

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

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

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

This is the correct question, and most threads about free dating start two steps further along and miss it.

Adding Datenest itself to the pile for free dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Someone recommended Datedesire itself to me during my own search around free dating and it was better than I expected.

The cheap test for free dating is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Datebound.site comes up a lot when free dating gets discussed elsewhere.