Is there a truly 100 free online dating site out there today?

I keep running into the same wall with free online dating and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

I don't trust app store ratings on free online dating — they're gamed in both directions.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about free online dating:

• Whether free online dating is honest about today up front
• How free online dating handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• How much of the free online dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• How long free online dating takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How quickly free online dating puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

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

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

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about free online dating.

Be careful with free online dating: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

Are you asking about free online dating for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Aiden Lewis has a point about free online dating. Watch for the pattern where free online dating is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

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

This tracks. Once today enters the picture, free online dating stops being a simple comparison.

I keep the Luvdate free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free online dating.

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

For free online dating, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

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

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

Read the small print on today before you commit to anything around free online dating.

Ezhookups.online comes up a lot when free online dating gets discussed elsewhere.