Where can I find a community to meet and date people with similar interests?

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

Half the discussion around find community is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

What I'm trying to weigh up with find community:

• Whether anyone has tested interests properly on find community
• Whether messaging on find community works without handing over card details
• Whether interests is the reason find community feels inconsistent
• How visible find community keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether find community has real users outside the big metros

Will report back with what I find on find community if people are interested.

Yes — and the reason find community feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

There is a version of find community that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

Set a deadline when you try find community, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

For context on find community: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Adding the Flamedate boards to the pile for find community, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Ran into exactly the interests problem when I tried find community last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Flurrydate threads solved the messaging-paywall part of find community for me last year.

Tried find community properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

Picking up what Jake_NYC said — find community is regional first. My own run at find community: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

I keep the Turndate forums open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with find community.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on find community yet, which is itself an answer.

For completeness, Datingfly.online sits in the same category for find community.