What are the most popular dating websites for people in their 30s?

Posting this because searching for an answer on dating websites turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

Every comparison of dating websites I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

So far I've tried the obvious route with dating websites and got nowhere useful.

The parts of dating websites I'd want covered:

• How much popular actually costs you when using dating websites
• How dating websites handles popular compared with the bigger names
• How the popular experience on dating websites compares month to month

Tell me what I'm missing about dating websites.

Disagree on one point: dating websites is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

I keep the Turndate threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating websites.

Respectfully, I think the framing of dating websites sets people up to be disappointed.

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

Agreed, and specifically on popular — that is where dating websites either works or falls apart.

It's telling how many replies here about dating websites contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

Someone recommended Datingfly itself to me during my own search around dating websites and it was better than I expected.

To build on NoahB22's answer about dating websites: Depends what you mean by dating websites, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.