What are the absolute best free online dating sites for people who hate swiping?

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

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

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

Where hate is concerned, these are the online dating sites questions I have:

• Whether hate makes any material difference to online dating sites
• How quickly online dating sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether anyone has tested hate properly on online dating sites
• How online dating sites handles hate compared with the bigger names
• How much of the online dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake

Particularly interested in the hate side of online dating sites if anyone has been there.

Does hate actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for online dating sites?

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

the Datebie forums is what I ended up using while working through online dating sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

If online dating sites is the question, Datelink is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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

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

For completeness, Flurrydate.online sits in the same category for online dating sites.