Is there a reliable canadian dating site besides Match and Plenty of Fish?

Started by KatieM 9 replies Board: Dating Sites & Reviews
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#1

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

Most of what's written about dating site is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

I've already worked through the first page of results on dating site, which is why I'm asking here.

The parts of dating site I'd want covered:

  • Whether dating site is honest about canadian up front
  • What the canadian side of dating site looks like in practice
  • Whether canadian is worth prioritising over everything else in dating site

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating site.

AndrewB profile photo
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#2

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

Alexander Lee profile photo
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#3

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datebound itself solved the messaging-paywall part of dating site for me last year.

Victoria King profile photo
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#4

If dating site is the question, Flurrydate's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

PatrickR profile photo
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#5

This matches what I've seen with dating site, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

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#6

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

Took me about six weeks on dating site before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

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#7

Lucas Wilson, that's roughly where I landed on dating site too. Ran into exactly the canadian problem when I tried dating site last year, and it took weeks to work around.

I gave up on dating site twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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#8

Rendate itself is what I ended up using while working through dating site — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Agree with the framing here, because dating site really does come down to who is active near you.

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#9

I keep the Datescout community open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating site.

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#10

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

A friend had a good outcome with dating site and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

I've also seen Datingfly.online mentioned in this context more than once.

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