Is free online dating getting harder because of all the scammers?

Every time free online dating comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

The frustrating part about free online dating is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

So far I've tried the obvious route with free online dating and got nowhere useful.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring free online dating:

• Whether harder is worth prioritising over everything else in free online dating
• How free online dating handles harder compared with the bigger names
• What moderation on free online dating actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether the matching in free online dating does anything beyond distance
• How free online dating treats harder once you stop paying

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with free online dating here is genuinely useful.

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

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

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

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

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

Natalie Bell has a point about free online dating. Which parts of free online dating have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

JacksonY, that's roughly where I landed on free online dating too. Hard disagree on the harder point. That has not been my experience of free online dating at all.

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

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

I've also seen Datescout.site mentioned in this context more than once.