How would you rank the top free online dating sites based on actual user safety?

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

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

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

Setting safety aside for a second, this is what I need from online dating sites:

• What moderation on online dating sites actually looks like when you report someone
• How online dating sites handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether safety makes any material difference to online dating sites
• How online dating sites treats safety once you stop paying
• How much of the online dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake

Any first-hand experience with online dating sites would help more than another list.

I keep the Ezhookups forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with online dating sites.

Datelink itself is what I ended up using while working through online dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Anything promising instant matches around online dating sites is worth treating with suspicion.

Once I sorted out safety, the rest of online dating sites became much more manageable than I expected.

The safety variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of online dating sites.

For me the safety side of online dating sites was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

ConnorM, that's roughly where I landed on online dating sites too. Respectfully, I think the framing of online dating sites sets people up to be disappointed.

Are you asking about online dating sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Adding Luvdate itself to the pile for online dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

To build on Harper Wells's answer about online dating sites: The thing that caught me out with online dating sites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Someone recommended Flurrydate.online to me during my own search around online dating sites and it was better than I expected.

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

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

What moved the needle for me on online dating sites was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

There is a version of online dating sites that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Turndate.site comes up a lot when online dating sites gets discussed elsewhere.