In your experience, what is the best way to meet singles in a new city?

Posting this because searching for an answer on meet singles turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

The reviews I can find on meet singles never say what the free tier actually lets you do.

I gave meet singles about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Breaking meet singles down into the parts I can test:

• How the experience experience on meet singles compares month to month
• What the experience side of meet singles looks like in practice
• Whether the matching in meet singles does anything beyond distance
• Whether experience makes any material difference to meet singles
• How meet singles handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Will report back with what I find on meet singles if people are interested.

For anyone else researching meet singles, I would put Datescout.site on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with meet singles here is genuinely useful.

Took me about six weeks on meet singles before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

What moved the needle for me on meet singles was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate solved the messaging-paywall part of meet singles for me last year.

Good thread — most discussion of meet singles online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Adding Datingfly's free tier to the pile for meet singles, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.