What are the most active long distance dating sites for international couples?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: most active long distance dating sites for international couples.

Most of what's written about dating sites is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

What I'm trying to weigh up with dating sites:

• What the distance side of dating sites looks like in practice
• Whether distance is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites
• Whether distance is the reason dating sites feels inconsistent

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

I read dating sites differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This tracks. Once distance enters the picture, dating sites stops being a simple comparison.

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

The distance element is where people get stung with dating sites, so check it before anything else.

For completeness, Datenest.site sits in the same category for dating sites.