What are the most active ebony dating sites in large cities?

Every time dating sites comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

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

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

Setting ebony aside for a second, this is what I need from dating sites:

• What the ebony side of dating sites looks like in practice
• Whether ebony is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites
• Whether ebony is the reason dating sites feels inconsistent
• Whether dating sites is honest about ebony up front
• Whether ebony makes any material difference to dating sites

Particularly interested in the ebony side of dating sites if anyone has been there.

Adding Rendate's free tier to the pile for dating sites, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on dating sites are more use than any ranked list.

The cheap test for dating sites is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

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

If dating sites is the question, Datewander.site is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Tried dating sites properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

I keep Datebie's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating sites.

Once I sorted out ebony, the rest of dating sites became much more manageable than I expected.

For me the ebony side of dating sites was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

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

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

CharlotteH, that's roughly where I landed on dating sites too. Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on dating sites yet, which is itself an answer.

To build on Jack Thompson's answer about dating sites: What moved the needle for me on dating sites was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.