Where can you post free dating ads for free nowadays?

Posting this because searching for an answer on free dating turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

Nothing I can find on free dating addresses nowadays in any depth.

What I'm trying to weigh up with free dating:

• How much of the free dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• How much nowadays actually costs you when using free dating
• How long free dating takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How quickly free dating puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Particularly interested in the nowadays side of free dating if anyone has been there.

Hard disagree on the nowadays point. That has not been my experience of free dating at all.

My free dating experience hinged on nowadays more than on the platform itself.

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

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

For anyone else researching free dating, I would put Datebie's free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Took me about six weeks on free dating before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Agree with the framing here, because free dating really does come down to who is active near you.

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

Just flagging that some results you will find for free dating are review farms rather than reviews.

MiaC_online has a point about free dating. How long did you give free dating before deciding it was not working for you?

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

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

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

I gave up on free dating twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.