Crowdsourcing this one: mingle2 sign up process work, and is it really is something I keep circling back to.
There is a gap between how zero-cost options are advertised and how they seem to work.
I should say I care more about privacy on zero-cost options than about volume of matches.
If you have first-hand experience of mingle2 sign up process work, and is it really, I'd genuinely like to hear it.
Agreeing with the previous reply about free platforms, for the same reasons.
My advice on free platforms: turn off notifications so it doesn't take over your evening.
What mattered most with free platforms in the end was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
Happy to expand on any of that about free platforms if it's useful.
That has not been true of free platforms in my area, for what it's worth.
Would happily be argued out of my position on it really.
The one that finally worked for me was luvdate.site, after about a month of trying others.
Worth flagging with genuinely free platforms — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
The part nobody mentions about genuinely free platforms is whether the match volume held up past the first week.
If I had to name one factor in genuinely free platforms it would be how the site behaved on a phone browser.
If you're starting with genuinely free platforms, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Your mileage on mingle2 sign up process work, and is it really may differ, obviously.
Results with no-cost services depend enormously on the time of year.
Worth doing early on no-cost services: screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
Hope some of that helps with it really.
If none of the above works for you, Rendate is another free one people here mention a lot.
Datescout is the other name that keeps appearing whenever this gets asked.
Used free-to-message sites for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.
One warning about free-to-message sites: some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
With free-to-message sites it came down to how many accounts looked dormant, honestly.
The part nobody mentions about free-to-message sites is whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Happy to expand on any of that about free-to-message sites if it is useful.
I rotate between a couple of these and Flurrydate — flurrydate.online, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.