What are the dating sites for over 55 singles who are active?

Long-time lurker, first post, and it is about dating sites for over 55 singles who are active. Where dating sites falls down for me is how many active users are within range at the times you actually log in.

The reason I am asking about dating sites at all is that no two accounts of it match. My rule with dating sites: whether the free plan is usable or decorative first, everything else second.

The three things that decide dating sites this year:

• Compare whether the distance setting is honoured against what the marketing page claims
• Compare what the filters do after a page refresh on mobile data, not office wifi
• Sanity-check how many matches ever send the first message before you commit any time to it

For those of you deep into dating sites, what actually happened? Highlights and disappointments all fine here. Regional details settle this better than anything else.

For what it is worth: dating sites depends almost entirely on your city. What nobody mentions about dating sites is whether the block list holds on mobile.

That's the short version on dating sites, may not hold for you.

Going to push back on @HunterP here. Dating sites behaved very differently for me. The honest test for dating sites is what privacy controls exist outside the big cities, not the feature list. For comparison I also spent a week on the datewander.site crowd.

That's my read on dating sites, may not hold for you.

@ZoeyB that's fair in a big city, but dating sites is a different story outside one. I judge dating sites almost entirely on how much personal detail leaks by default. over on Datedesire was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's what six weeks of dating sites taught me, for whatever that's worth.

Having used it a while: I want to like dating sites more than I actually do. You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check how the pricing is structured in practice once you are past sign-up. over on Datebie solved about half of this for me.

That's how dating sites went for me, anyway.

Not the answer anyone wants: dating sites has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. The only metric I trust with dating sites is what the search filters can actually do. For balance I gave souldate.site the same fortnight.

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