Where is the best place to post free dating ads for locals?

I've spent about three months poking at free dating and I still don't have a clean answer.

There's a real gap between how free dating is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

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

Where post is concerned, these are the free dating questions I have:

• Whether the matching in free dating does anything beyond distance
• What the post side of free dating looks like in practice
• Whether free dating is honest about post up front

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

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

Respectfully, I think the framing of free dating sets people up to be disappointed.

The thing that caught me out with free dating was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

The post disagreement in this thread says more about free dating than any single answer.

To build on Elizabeth Day's answer about free dating: The post element is where people get stung with free dating, so check it before anything else.

This is the correct question, and most threads about free dating start two steps further along and miss it.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebound boards solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating for me last year.

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

Ran into exactly the post problem when I tried free dating last year, and it took weeks to work around.

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

Since we're comparing options around free dating, Datingfly's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Watch for the pattern where free dating is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

I've also seen Datedesire.site mentioned in this context more than once.