If you had to choose the best free dating platform, which one wins?

Someone in another thread mentioned best free dating in passing and it's been bugging me since.

The problem with researching best free dating is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around best free dating before posting.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about best free dating:

• Whether the best free dating experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How quickly best free dating puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• How much wins actually costs you when using best free dating
• Whether wins is worth prioritising over everything else in best free dating
• How long best free dating takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

Any first-hand experience with best free dating would help more than another list.

I keep the Datewander threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best free dating.

Agreed, and specifically on wins — that is where best free dating either works or falls apart.

Read the small print on wins before you commit to anything around best free dating.

If best free dating is the question, the Datebound boards is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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

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

For me the wins side of best free dating was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

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

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

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