What are the best dating sites reddit users recommend?

Someone in another thread mentioned best dating sites in passing and it's been bugging me since.

Most of what's written about best dating sites is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

I gave best dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

The parts of best dating sites I'd want covered:

• Whether best dating sites is honest about reddit up front
• Whether reddit makes any material difference to best dating sites
• How much of the best dating sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• How visible best dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

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

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

There is a version of best dating sites that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Ben1989 has a point about best dating sites. I'd qualify this: best dating sites works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

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

AmandaH, that's roughly where I landed on best dating sites too. Bookmarking this, because threads like it on best dating sites are more use than any ranked list.

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

Anything promising instant matches around best dating sites is worth treating with suspicion.

To build on Ben1989's answer about best dating sites: Depends heavily on reddit — take that out and best dating sites becomes a much easier call.

Took me about six weeks on best dating sites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Disagree with Julian White slightly here on best dating sites. Counterpoint — treating best dating sites as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

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