Where can I find free gay meet up sites?

Posting this because searching for an answer on meet up sites turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

Nothing I can find on meet up sites addresses meet up sites in any depth.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched meet up sites.

The parts of meet up sites I'd want covered:

• Whether the matching in meet up sites does anything beyond distance
• Whether the free tier on meet up sites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How long meet up sites takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

Even a 'don't bother' on meet up sites is a useful answer.

The meet up sites variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of meet up sites.

The meet up sites element is where people get stung with meet up sites, so check it before anything else.

Good thread — most discussion of meet up sites online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

I keep Flurrydate open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with meet up sites.

Datewander is what I ended up using while working through meet up sites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on meet up sites yet, which is itself an answer.

JamesC99, that's roughly where I landed on meet up sites too. Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with meet up sites here is genuinely useful.

Someone recommended Datebie to me during my own search around meet up sites and it was better than I expected.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where meet up sites is concerned?

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

My own run at meet up sites: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Turndate community solved the messaging-paywall part of meet up sites for me last year.

This is the correct question, and most threads about meet up sites start two steps further along and miss it.