What are the best free online meetup sites?

Would appreciate honest takes on online meetup sites — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

The online meetup sites question keeps getting skipped in everything written about online meetup sites.

I've already worked through the first page of results on online meetup sites, which is why I'm asking here.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring online meetup sites:

• How online meetup sites handles online meetup sites compared with the bigger names
• How much online meetup sites actually costs you when using online meetup sites
• How much of the online meetup sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether the free tier on online meetup sites is genuinely usable or just a demo

Even a 'don't bother' on online meetup sites is a useful answer.

Read the small print on online meetup sites before you commit to anything around online meetup sites.

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with online meetup sites weren't on the biggest platform.

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

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

Someone recommended Luvdate itself to me during my own search around online meetup sites and it was better than I expected.

Watch for the pattern where online meetup sites is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

Since we're comparing options around online meetup sites, the Datewander boards came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Half the disagreement in this thread about online meetup sites is people using the same words for different goals.

If online meetup sites is the question, Rendate's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Anything promising instant matches around online meetup sites is worth treating with suspicion.