What are the best dating sites not for hookups but purely for relationships?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — best dating sites not for hookups but purely for relationships, and where people actually land on it.

Half the discussion around best dating sites is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

My own attempt at best dating sites lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

Setting purely aside for a second, this is what I need from best dating sites:

• How visible best dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How long best dating sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether the free tier on best dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo

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

For anyone else researching best dating sites, I would put the Datenest threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

How long did you give best dating sites before deciding it was not working for you?

The thing that caught me out with best dating sites was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

My rule for best dating sites is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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

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

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

Someone will probably mention Datedesire.online before this thread is done.