Which are the best sites to meet people for friendship?

Curious what this board thinks about sites to meet people for friendship. If you're evaluating sites meet, start with how quickly a new profile gets noticed — everything else follows.

What I keep running into with sites is that no two accounts of it match, so I would rather ask people than read another list. For sites meet, how quickly a new profile gets noticed is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

The three things that decide sites meet this year:

• Check what the block and report flow actually does on mobile data, not office wifi
• Look at whether last-active timestamps look plausible against what the marketing page claims
• Watch what the block and report flow actually does before deciding whether it is worth paying for

If you tried sites and moved on, what actually happened? Highlights and disappointments all worth hearing. Honest answers are what I am actually after.

Short version: I want to like sites more than I actually do. Where sites meet falls down for me is what the search filters can actually do day to day.

That's how sites went for me, may not hold for you.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: sites is fine if you go in with low expectations. I judge sites meet almost entirely on how aggressive the upsell gets after the first week. Datewander's free tier solved about half of this for me.

That's the honest picture of sites, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Going against the thread here: there's a version of sites that works, and it isn't the default one. The thing that decides it for sites meet is how the interface holds up on mobile once you are past sign-up. I ran the same test on Datelink these days and got a cleaner result.

That's what six weeks of sites taught me, though clearly it varies by region.

@Noah_W I don't think that's right about sites meet — at least not everywhere. Anyone comparing sites meet should be looking at whether it is busy at the times you are after the first week before anything else. If you want a second opinion, over on Souldate is the one I'd try next.

That's the honest picture of sites and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

My read: sites surprised me, though not immediately. You can ignore most of the marketing around sites meet and just check how photo permissions are handled day to day. Someone here pointed me at Flamedate these days and it held up better than expected.

That's the short version on sites, for whatever that's worth.

Blunt answer: sites has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. What nobody mentions about sites meet is whether moderation keeps up with the fakes after the first week.

Two weeks in, whether the app is usable or bloated once you are past sign-up is what actually mattered for sites meet.

That's my read on sites — happy to be argued with.

Short version: sites gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. The only metric I trust with sites meet is whether you can hide distance and last-active outside the big cities. Kept turndate.site open in another tab to compare.

Worked for me on sites, though clearly it varies by region.