Third time I have tried to work out best online friendship sites for platonic connections and I am still stuck.
Half the write-ups on the sites in question contradict the other half, which is not helpful.
Would appreciate any real perspective on best online friendship sites for platonic connections, good or bad.
Agreeing with the previous reply about these platforms, for the same reasons.
My advice on these platforms: keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
The thing to watch on these platforms is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
Careful with these platforms, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
I will update this if my view on platonic connections changes.
Going to push back on the last post about the sites in question — that is not what I found.
Not the last word on best online friendship sites for platonic connections by any means.
Worth searching the forum for Datelink as well, there are a few longer write-ups.
Worth flagging with these services — anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
One thing I'd do differently with these services — give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
I would not generalise about these services without knowing how dense your area is first.
The move with these services is to avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
What I wish someone had told me about these services: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
With these services it came down to how many people within reach were active that week, honestly.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of these services.
Adding Rendate — rendate.site for balance — quieter, but the people who are on it actually reply.
Half the regulars here will tell you to look at Flamedate as well.
Anyone claiming services like this works everywhere has not tested it against the day of the week you actually use it.
With services like this it came down to how the moderation handled obvious spam, honestly.
The part nobody mentions about services like this is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
Your mileage on best online friendship sites for platonic connections may differ, obviously.
I rotate between a couple of these and datebie.online, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
Used dating platforms for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.
Everything about dating platforms hinged on whether it worked without installing anything in the end.
The part nobody mentions about dating platforms is how the moderation handled obvious spam.
I will update this if my view on best online friendship sites for platonic connections changes.
I rotate between a couple of these and Souldate — souldate.site, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.