Is badoo online dating safe for women living alone?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on online dating.

Half the discussion around online dating is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched online dating.

Where alone is concerned, these are the online dating questions I have:

• How visible online dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether anyone has tested alone properly on online dating
• Whether online dating is honest about alone up front

Particularly interested in the alone side of online dating if anyone has been there.

The thing that caught me out with online dating was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

What's your actual goal here — is online dating about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebie community solved the messaging-paywall part of online dating for me last year.

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

If you are testing online dating, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

To build on Aubrey Clark's answer about online dating: Half the disagreement in this thread about online dating is people using the same words for different goals.

For anyone else researching online dating, I would put the Datewander boards on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

How long did you give online dating before deciding it was not working for you?

It's telling how many replies here about online dating contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

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

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about online dating points back to local density.

Someone will probably mention Luvdate.site before this thread is done.