What are the best free texting dating sites?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: best free texting dating sites.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to dating sites.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched dating sites.

Concretely, for dating sites, these are my criteria:

• What the dating sites side of dating sites looks like in practice
• How dating sites treats dating sites once you stop paying
• Whether dating sites is honest about dating sites up front

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about dating sites.

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

Does dating sites actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for dating sites?

EmmaT92, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with dating sites was the opposite of what's being described here.

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

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

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

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

I gave up on dating sites twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

It's telling how many replies here about dating sites contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

The dating sites part of this is being overstated, because dating sites was fine for me without it.

For completeness, Ezhookups.online sits in the same category for dating sites.