Where can I find a community for totally free dating advice?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is find a community for totally free dating advice.

Nobody writing about free dating seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about free dating:

• Whether advice is worth prioritising over everything else in free dating
• How the advice experience on free dating compares month to month
• How long free dating takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether anyone has tested advice properly on free dating
• How free dating handles advice compared with the bigger names

Even a 'don't bother' on free dating is a useful answer.

I met my partner through something adjacent to free dating, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

It's telling how many replies here about free dating contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

A friend had a good outcome with free dating and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Adding Flamedate's free tier to the pile for free dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

One caution on free dating — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

Anything promising instant matches around free dating is worth treating with suspicion.

Have you looked at the advice side of free dating yet, or still on the basics?

The advice variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of free dating.

Broadly with you on free dating, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

If free dating is the question, Ezhookups.online is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

The advice disagreement in this thread says more about free dating than any single answer.

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

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

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

Both things can be true about free dating: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

the Flurrydate forums is what I ended up using while working through free dating — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

For completeness, Flamedate.online sits in the same category for free dating.