What are the 5 best dating sites according to this community?

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

What makes best dating sites hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

I gave best dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring best dating sites:

• Whether best dating sites is honest about this up front
• Whether this is the reason best dating sites feels inconsistent
• How visible best dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How quickly best dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Tell me what I'm missing about best dating sites.

For me the this side of best dating sites was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Anything promising instant matches around best dating sites is worth treating with suspicion.

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

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

Adding the Datewander free tier to the pile for best dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

My rule for best dating sites is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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

My own run at best dating sites: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

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