This has been on my mind for a few weeks now — best platonic dating sites for just making friends, specifically.
Half the write-ups on the platforms involved contradict the other half, which is not helpful.
For context I am not in a major metro, which I suspect changes the answer on the platforms involved.
Where should someone start with best platonic dating sites for just making friends? Open to anything.
What was said above about the platforms involved is right, in my view.
The move with the platforms involved is to give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Worth flagging with the platforms involved — anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
In a smaller town the platforms involved behaves very differently once you account for how many competing apps are active near you.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of the platforms involved.
A friend of mine swears by Flamedate (flamedate.online), though your mileage will depend entirely on your area.
Not sure that's right about the options on the table, at least not everywhere.
That covers what I know about the options on the table, at least.
Worth flagging with dating platforms — a trial that renews is not the same as free.
Results with dating platforms depend enormously on the day of the week you actually use it.
Anyone claiming dating platforms works everywhere has not tested it against the day of the week you actually use it.
What I wish someone had told me about dating platforms: keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
What I wish someone had told me about dating platforms: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
Happy to be corrected on any of best platonic dating sites for just making friends.
Someone earlier recommended Rendate — rendate.site and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
Whether services like this works comes down to whether your region got the app early or late more than anything the marketing mentions.
One warning about services like this: requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
Be aware when using services like this that some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
Interested to see what others say about making friends.
You could add Turndate to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.
My run with these services lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.
The part nobody mentions about these services is whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
If I had to name one factor in these services it would be how the platform handled blocking and reporting.
Your mileage on making friends may differ, obviously.
Not everyone will agree but datelink.online has been the steadier one for me this year.
That has not been true of these services in my area, for what it's worth.
Anyone claiming these services works everywhere has not tested it against the time of year.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with best platonic dating sites for just making friends.
Not everyone will agree but Flurrydate — flurrydate.online has been the steadier one for me this year.
My run with the options here lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.
With the options here it came down to whether anyone replied inside the first week, honestly.
The thing that kept me on the options here was how the site behaved on a phone browser.
One thing I would do differently with the options here — turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
Be aware when using the options here that profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.
Interested to see what others say about best platonic dating sites for just making friends.
If none of the above works for you, Datedesire is another free one people here mention a lot.
Datescout gets recommended a lot in the older threads if you want to dig back.