What are the dating sites for men that have the best male-to-female ratio?

Been circling dating sites for men that have the best male-to-female ratio for a while now. I judge dating sites almost entirely on whether messaging is open or gated behind credits in practice.

The part that trips me up on dating sites is that the last honest write-up is two years old, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. Where dating sites falls down for me is how active it is outside big cities.

The quick sanity pass I run on dating sites, in order:

• Confirm whether the same faces cycle back the next day before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Check how the web version differs from the app on the first evening, not the first month
• Look at how the search behaves outside the default radius on mobile data, not office wifi
• Count how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands on mobile data, not office wifi
• Check how many matches ever send the first message in your own city rather than the default radius

If you have used dating sites in the last few months, what did the review sites get wrong? Cheerleading and cynicism genuinely both wanted. Firsthand accounts are the only thing I can act on.

Counterpoint to @Elijah Anderson: dating sites got noticeably worse after the last redesign. My rule with dating sites: what privacy controls exist first, everything else second. If you want a second opinion, a look at Flamedate is the one I'd try next.

That's been my experience with dating sites, and I would be glad to hear others found different.

Going against the thread here: dating sites rewards patience and punishes everything else. The only metric I trust with dating sites is how many active users are within range outside the big cities. a look at Datelink solved about half of this for me.

Where I'd start with dating sites, in order:

• Verify how the web version differs from the app in your own city rather than the default radius
• Confirm what share of the layout is advertising at the hour you would actually be using it

The honest test for dating sites is whether the block list holds day to day, not the feature list.

That's what six weeks of dating sites taught me — happy to be argued with.

@Hannah is describing a version of dating sites I have never seen. Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at what the reporting tools actually do day to day before anything else. datebie.online is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

For dating sites, what costs money once you are past sign-up day to day is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

Worked for me on dating sites, may not hold for you.

Not sure @Elijah Anderson and I are talking about the same dating sites at all. The thing that decides it for dating sites is what the escalation path looks like day to day.

That's where I have landed on dating sites, for whatever that is worth.

@Ben1989 that matches the marketing for dating sites, not what I found using it. Two weeks in, what the free tier really covers once you are past sign-up is what actually mattered for dating sites. Genuinely surprised by Souldate these days after low expectations.

What nobody mentions about dating sites is whether the block list holds.

That's my read on dating sites, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Honest take: dating sites depends almost entirely on your city. If you are evaluating dating sites, start with whether it is busy at the times you are — everything else follows.

My shortlist when weighing dating sites if you're short on time:

• Track what happens to your visibility after a week of silence with the age filter set narrow
• Test whether the distance setting is honoured with the age filter set narrow
• Look at whether last-active timestamps look plausible with the age filter set narrow
• Test how the search behaves outside the default radius on the first evening, not the first month

You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check what the free tier really covers.

That's the honest picture of dating sites, may not hold for you.

My read: dating sites did roughly what I expected, no more. My rule with dating sites: whether it is busy at the times you are after the first week first, everything else second. Ended up sticking with Datebound's free tier for the messaging alone.

The thing that decides it for dating sites is how obvious the scripted replies are after the first week.

That's the short version on dating sites; ask if you want the detail.