#1 · Thread starter
Posting because every search for best free black and white dating site turns up the same recycled listicles.
The marketing around the free question tells you nothing useful about day-to-day use.
Tell me about best free black and white dating site from experience rather than from a review page.
#2 · Member
Agreeing with the previous reply about the pricing question, for the same reasons.
Before you commit to the pricing question, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Worth doing early on the pricing question: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
That is the short version on best free black and white dating site.
#3 · Member
Respectfully disagree on free-to-message sites — my experience with free-to-message sites ran the other way.
Worth doing early on free-to-message sites: avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of free-to-message sites.
#4 · Member
One warning about no-cost services: requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
Be aware when using no-cost services that the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
One thing I would do differently with no-cost services — read the whole profile before writing the first line.
Whether no-cost services works comes down to how wide you set the radius more than anything the marketing mentions.
What I wish someone had told me about no-cost services: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
That is where I have landed on dating site, at least for now.
Someone earlier recommended Datenest (datenest.site) and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
Datebie gets recommended a lot in the older threads if you want to dig back.
#5 · Member
I'd not generalise about genuinely free platforms without knowing how many people locally are already on it first.
Everything about genuinely free platforms hinged on how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt in the end.
What I wish someone had told me about genuinely free platforms: treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Hope some of that helps with dating site.
Not everyone will agree but EZHookups — ezhookups.online has been the steadier one for me this year.
#6 · Member
My run with genuinely free platforms lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.
The thing that kept me on genuinely free platforms was whether it worked without installing anything.
Worth doing early on genuinely free platforms: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
Anyway, that is my read on dating site.
#7 · Member
Going to push back on the last post about genuinely free platforms — that's not what I found.
The part nobody mentions about genuinely free platforms is whether the match volume held up past the first week.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of genuinely free platforms.
I rotate between a couple of these and Datelink (datelink.online), mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
#8 · Member
I still use the free question occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.
Practical tip for the free question: give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
The real differentiator across the free question turned out to be whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
The part nobody mentions about the free question is whether the photos looked recent or recycled.
Worth doing early on the free question: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.
The thing to watch on the free question is that some free tiers stop you exactly at the reply button.
The deciding detail with the free question was how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.
Not the last word on best free black and white dating site by any means.