What are the most reliable dating sites for marriage?

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

The problem with researching dating sites is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

I gave dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

What would actually change my mind about dating sites:

• Whether dating sites is honest about marriage up front
• Whether anyone has tested marriage properly on dating sites
• Whether marriage makes any material difference to dating sites
• Whether marriage is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites

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

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

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

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

The marriage disagreement in this thread says more about dating sites than any single answer.

Disagree with Harper Wells slightly here on dating sites. Hard disagree on the marriage point. That has not been my experience of dating sites at all.

I keep the Datebound community open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating sites.

Test marriage first, because it tells you more about dating sites than any feature comparison will.

Someone recommended Flamedate's free tier to me during my own search around dating sites and it was better than I expected.

Read the small print on marriage before you commit to anything around dating sites.

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

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