Where do you guys go to find free local personals now that Craigslist is gone?

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

Every comparison of guys I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

Breaking guys down into the parts I can test:

• Whether the free tier on guys is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether gone makes any material difference to guys
• What the gone side of guys looks like in practice
• Whether anyone has tested gone properly on guys

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datingfly solved the messaging-paywall part of guys for me last year.

Since we're comparing options around guys, the Datebound community came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For anyone else researching guys, I would put the Flurrydate threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

I keep Ezhookups's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with guys.

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

The gone disagreement in this thread says more about guys than any single answer.

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

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

Have you looked at the gone side of guys yet, or still on the basics?

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

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

If you go down the guys route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Datenest.site comes up a lot when guys gets discussed elsewhere.