What are the best australian dating sites for meeting locals in Sydney?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: best australian dating sites for meeting locals in Sydney.

There's a real gap between how dating sites is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

Concretely, for dating sites, these are my criteria:

• What moderation on dating sites actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether australian is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites
• How much australian actually costs you when using dating sites
• How dating sites treats australian once you stop paying

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about dating sites.

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

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

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

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

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

Have you looked at the australian side of dating sites yet, or still on the basics?

The cheap test for dating sites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

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