What are the most weird dating sites that actually exist?

Someone in another thread mentioned dating sites in passing and it's been bugging me since.

There's a real gap between how dating sites is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

I gave dating sites about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask once you factor weird into it.

Concretely, for dating sites, these are my criteria:

• Whether weird is worth prioritising over everything else in dating sites
• Whether anyone has tested weird properly on dating sites
• Whether dating sites is honest about weird up front
• How the weird experience on dating sites compares month to month
• What the weird side of dating sites looks like in practice

If you've actually used something relevant to dating sites, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere if weird is what matters most to you.

The weird variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating sites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Picking up what Owen Martinez said — dating sites is regional first. Read the small print on weird before you commit to anything around dating sites.

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

I gave up on dating sites twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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

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