What are the best dating sites like tinder for people who hate swiping?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: best dating sites like tinder for people who hate swiping.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on best dating sites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

Breaking best dating sites down into the parts I can test:

• Whether the free tier on best dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether hate makes any material difference to best dating sites
• What moderation on best dating sites actually looks like when you report someone

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on best dating sites.

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

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

Someone recommended Datebie itself to me during my own search around best dating sites and it was better than I expected.

Picking up what Emily Carr said — best dating sites is regional first. I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with best dating sites was the opposite of what's being described here.

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

Test hate first, because it tells you more about best dating sites than any feature comparison will.

Adding the Datelink free tier to the pile for best dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

What's your actual goal here — is best dating sites about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

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