What are the most active dating sites in my area for people over 30?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: most active dating sites in my area for people over 30.

Most of what's written about dating sites is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

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

Specifically, on dating sites, the things I actually care about are:

• Whether dating sites is honest about area up front
• How dating sites treats area once you stop paying
• Whether area makes any material difference to dating sites
• How the area experience on dating sites compares month to month

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

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

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

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

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

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

AbbyRoss88 has a point about dating sites. My rule for dating sites is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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

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

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

This matches what I've seen with dating sites, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on dating sites yet, which is itself an answer.

Picking up what NoraHill said — dating sites is regional first. Have you looked at the area side of dating sites yet, or still on the basics?

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

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