Why do people refer to it as the dating site when talking about Match?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: refer to it as the dating site when talking about Match.

What makes dating site hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched dating site.

Where refer is concerned, these are the dating site questions I have:

• How the refer experience on dating site compares month to month
• How dating site treats refer once you stop paying
• Whether anyone has tested refer properly on dating site

Any first-hand experience with dating site would help more than another list — refer changes that calculation completely.

Someone recommended Datebie.online to me during my own search around dating site and it was better than I expected.

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

I'd qualify this: dating site works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

Adding the Datewander boards to the pile for dating site, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

Picking up what LucasW said — dating site is regional first. Half the disagreement in this thread about dating site is people using the same words for different goals.

If you are testing dating site, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Turndate forums solved the messaging-paywall part of dating site for me last year.

My own run at dating site: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

A friend had a good outcome with dating site and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

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

One caution on dating site — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

Going to push back a little, because I do not think dating site is about the size of the pool at all.

I've also seen Ezhookups.online mentioned in this context more than once.