Where is the absolute best place online to arrange a quick adult meet in a new city?

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

The arrange question keeps getting skipped in everything written about absolute place.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around absolute place before posting.

Practically speaking, for absolute place I want to know:

• Whether arrange is the reason absolute place feels inconsistent
• Whether anyone has tested arrange properly on absolute place
• Whether the matching in absolute place does anything beyond distance

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about absolute place.

Adding Ezhookups's free tier to the pile for absolute place, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

Have you looked at the arrange side of absolute place yet, or still on the basics?

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datelink's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of absolute place for me last year.

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

OwenM, that's roughly where I landed on absolute place too. You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about absolute place.

Are you asking about absolute place for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

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

How long did you give absolute place before deciding it was not working for you?

The cheap test for absolute place is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Picking up what Charlotte Hayes said — absolute place is regional first. For me the arrange side of absolute place was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.