What are the dating sites for over 50s that focus on companionship?

Been circling dating sites for over 50s that focus on companionship for a while now. Where dating sites falls down for me is what share of matches go nowhere day to day.

The reason I am asking about dating sites at all is that no two accounts of it match. Two weeks in, how many active users are within range outside the big cities is what actually mattered for dating sites.

What I wish someone had told me about dating sites, in order:

• Track whether the same faces cycle back the next day against one platform you already trust
• Sanity-check how quickly a scripted account gives itself away before you commit any time to it
• Count how many matches ever send the first message against one platform you already trust

Anyone who tracked dating sites over a longer stretch, what would you do differently? Positive and negative all land the same with me. Regional details matter more than star ratings.

Honest take: dating sites works, but not the way the marketing implies. My rule with dating sites: how clean the member base looks at the times you actually log in first, everything else second. For comparison I also spent a week on turndate.site.

That's what six weeks of dating sites taught me and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

@Camila Torres is describing a version of dating sites I have never seen. Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at how fast it loads on a bad connection before anything else. souldate.site came up in a similar thread last month.

That's the short version on dating sites and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Speaking from four months of it: I want to like dating sites more than I actually do. The only metric I trust with dating sites is whether messaging is open or gated behind credits day to day. Tried datenest.site alongside it and saw no real gap.

That's how dating sites went for me and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Honest take: there's a version of dating sites that works, and it isn't the default one. You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check where the paywall actually sits. Flamedate was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's my read on dating sites and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

Going to push back on @VictoriaE here. Dating sites behaved very differently for me. For dating sites, what share of matches go nowhere outside the big cities is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Genuinely surprised by what Datingfly is doing after low expectations.

If you're evaluating dating sites, start with whether you can hide distance and last-active — everything else follows.

That's what six weeks of dating sites taught me, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.