Which over 50 dating sites are the most user-friendly for non-techies?

Spent the weekend reading about over 50 dating sites are the most user-friendly for non-techies and came away more confused. My rule with dating sites: what the day-to-day traffic feels like first, everything else second.

My problem with every answer on dating sites is that the answers split by city and by year, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. For dating sites, whether notifications are useful or noise after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

The three things that decide dating sites, in order:

• Check what the filters do after a page refresh with the age filter set narrow
• Compare how the feed changes when you narrow the age range with the age filter set narrow
• Time what share of the layout is advertising using a fresh account rather than an old one

For anyone still using dating sites, what actually happened? The good, the bad and the boring all worth hearing. Honest answers cut through the noise fastest.

@Dylan Green makes a good point, though I would qualify it — dating sites shifted a lot last year. Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at whether the activity is real or recycled in practice before anything else. A friend nudged me toward Datenest right now and it was not a waste.

The rough checklist I use for dating sites after a few false starts:

• Compare whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out against one platform you already trust
• Count whether last-active timestamps look plausible with notifications switched off
• Test what happens to your visibility after a week of silence before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Verify whether replies are open before you finish the profile with the age filter set narrow

That's been my experience with dating sites; ask if you want the detail.

Not the answer anyone wants: dating sites is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. I judge dating sites almost entirely on how fast it loads on a bad connection day to day. Rendate was the only one that did not gate replies.

The only metric I trust with dating sites is what the reply rate looks like on mobile.

That's how dating sites went for me; ask if you want the detail.

Honest take: dating sites surprised me, though not immediately. Where dating sites falls down for me is what the reporting tools actually do. Ended up sticking with the flamedate.online crowd for the messaging alone.

What nobody mentions about dating sites is whether you can hide distance and last-active on mobile.

That's my read on dating sites; ask if you want the detail.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: dating sites works, but not the way the marketing implies. Two weeks in, whether the block list holds is what actually mattered for dating sites. People keep recommending the Datedesire community; it is at least worth ten minutes.

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

Not the answer anyone wants: dating sites works, but not the way the marketing implies. You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check how clean the member base looks after the first week. For comparison I also spent a week on souldate.site.

That's the honest picture of dating sites, for whatever that is worth.