What are the professional singles dating sites with the best reputation?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now singles dating sites is the thing I can't work out.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on singles dating sites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring singles dating sites:

• Whether the singles dating sites experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How singles dating sites treats reputation once you stop paying
• What happens to your data if you delete a singles dating sites account
• How visible singles dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether reputation makes any material difference to singles dating sites

If you've actually used something relevant to singles dating sites, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on singles dating sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

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

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

Are you asking about singles dating sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

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

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

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with singles dating sites was the opposite of what's being described here.

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