What is the absolute best free meet sites for casual hangouts?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about free meet sites, so I'm bringing it here.

What makes free meet sites hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

My checklist for free meet sites, in rough order of importance:

• How much of the free meet sites profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether hangouts makes any material difference to free meet sites
• Whether free meet sites is honest about hangouts up front

Any first-hand experience with free meet sites would help more than another list.

Which parts of free meet sites have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

If free meet sites is the question, Flamedate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

I keep Datebie's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free meet sites.

Practical suggestion on free meet sites: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

Since we're comparing options around free meet sites, Datingfly's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about free meet sites.

Picking up what Julian White said — free meet sites is regional first. The honest answer on free meet sites is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

Does hangouts actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for free meet sites?

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

Someone recommended the Datescout forums to me during my own search around free meet sites and it was better than I expected.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Luvdate forums solved the messaging-paywall part of free meet sites for me last year.

If you are testing free meet sites, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

Turndate.site comes up a lot when free meet sites gets discussed elsewhere.