What are the best dating sites for women seeking serious partners?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about best dating sites, so I'm bringing it here.

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

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around best dating sites before posting.

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

• Whether the free tier on best dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether the matching in best dating sites does anything beyond distance
• How visible best dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

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

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

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on best dating sites yet, which is itself an answer.

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

I met my partner through something adjacent to best dating sites, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

Read the small print on partners before you commit to anything around best dating sites.

Be careful with best dating sites: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

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

Depends heavily on partners — take that out and best dating sites becomes a much easier call.