What are the best 50 and older dating sites for finding companionship?

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

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to dating sites.

The criteria I keep coming back to on dating sites:

• What moderation on dating sites actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether the dating sites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• Whether companionship makes any material difference to dating sites
• What the companionship side of dating sites looks like in practice

Will report back with what I find on dating sites if people are interested.

Adding Datescout.site to the pile for dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

Just flagging that some results you will find for dating sites are review farms rather than reviews.

Which parts of dating sites have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

Good thread — most discussion of dating sites online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

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

Set a deadline when you try dating sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datebie solved the messaging-paywall part of dating sites for me last year.

If you go down the dating sites route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

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

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

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