What are the safest free senior match sites to recommend to my parents?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: safest free senior match sites to recommend to my parents.

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

So far I've tried the obvious route with senior match and got nowhere useful.

Specifically, on senior match, the things I actually care about are:

• Whether parents makes any material difference to senior match
• Whether parents is the reason senior match feels inconsistent
• How visible senior match keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How senior match treats parents once you stop paying

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

How long did you give senior match before deciding it was not working for you?

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on senior match that I don't think survives contact with reality.

To build on Owen Martinez's answer about senior match: Do you care more about cost or about moderation where senior match is concerned?

Someone recommended the Datewander forums to me during my own search around senior match and it was better than I expected.

Since we're comparing options around senior match, Datelink came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Are you asking about senior match for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datedesire.online solved the messaging-paywall part of senior match for me last year.

Datebie is what I ended up using while working through senior match — not perfect, but the free tier is real.