Which free dating service has the most active users right now?

Someone in another thread mentioned free dating in passing and it's been bugging me since.

The problem with researching free dating is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

I gave free dating about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about free dating:

• How free dating handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• How much of the free dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• How free dating treats service once you stop paying
• Whether messaging on free dating works without handing over card details

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about free dating.

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

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

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with free dating here is genuinely useful.

Be careful with free dating: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on free dating that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Agreed, and specifically on service — that is where free dating either works or falls apart.

To build on CassandraP's answer about free dating: If you are testing free dating, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

The service part of this is being overstated, because free dating was fine for me without it.

If service matters to you then free dating narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Does service actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for free dating?

For anyone else researching free dating, I would put the Ezhookups boards on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

For completeness, Ezhookups.online sits in the same category for free dating.