What are the most active 50 plus dating sites for casual dating?

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

The frustrating part about dating sites is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

The criteria I keep coming back to on dating sites:

• How dating sites handles plus compared with the bigger names
• How the plus experience on dating sites compares month to month
• What the plus side of dating sites looks like in practice

Will report back with what I find on dating sites if people are interested.

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

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

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

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

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

Picking up what OliviaG said — dating sites is regional first. Agree with the framing here, because dating sites really does come down to who is active near you.

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

Hard disagree on the plus point. That has not been my experience of dating sites at all.

Depends what you mean by dating sites, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

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

Rendate.site comes up a lot when dating sites gets discussed elsewhere.