Is pinalove mostly for long-distance relationships or can you find locals on it?

I keep running into the same wall with long-distance relationships and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

Every comparison of long-distance relationships I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched long-distance relationships.

Breaking long-distance relationships down into the parts I can test:

• Whether long-distance relationships has real users outside the big metros
• Whether the long-distance relationships experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How long-distance relationships handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about long-distance relationships.

A friend had a good outcome with long-distance relationships and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Strongly agree, and I would add that long-distance relationships looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

For anyone else researching long-distance relationships, I would put the Datewander community on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

I'd separate pinalove from long-distance relationships here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Adding the Datebie free tier to the pile for long-distance relationships, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Took me about six weeks on long-distance relationships before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Someone recommended the Datingfly forums to me during my own search around long-distance relationships and it was better than I expected.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on long-distance relationships are more use than any ranked list.