What are the most active personal dating sites for local meetups?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: most active personal dating sites for local meetups.

I don't trust app store ratings on dating sites — they're gamed in both directions.

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

The parts of dating sites I'd want covered:

• What the personal side of dating sites looks like in practice
• Whether anyone has tested personal properly on dating sites
• Whether personal is the reason dating sites feels inconsistent

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

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

Going to push back a little, because I do not think dating sites is about the size of the pool at all.

Depends heavily on personal — take that out and dating sites becomes a much easier call.

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

Just flagging that some results you will find for dating sites are review farms rather than reviews.

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

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

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

The personal angle you raise is the part most threads on dating sites skip entirely.

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about dating sites points back to local density.

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

Have you looked at the personal side of dating sites yet, or still on the basics?

I've also seen Datebound.site mentioned in this context more than once.