What are the best dating sites for 50 year olds who are new to the internet?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on best dating sites.

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

What would actually change my mind about best dating sites:

• How best dating sites treats internet once you stop paying
• How much of the best dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether anyone has tested internet properly on best dating sites
• Whether the matching in best dating sites does anything beyond distance
• Whether internet is the reason best dating sites feels inconsistent

Any first-hand experience with best dating sites would help more than another list.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with best dating sites here is genuinely useful.

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

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

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

Respectfully, I think the framing of best dating sites sets people up to be disappointed.

Counterpoint — treating best dating sites as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

I'd separate internet from best dating sites here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

I keep Datingfly open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating sites.