Seconding @Lauren. What settled it for me on classic free dating was how much of the traffic is automated.
Came back to classic free dating after a break. Over the first ten conversations, what the replies looked like was more consistent than the alternatives.
What would you check first on classic free dating if what the ratio looks like at different hours was your main worry?
Nobody writing about free dating seems willing to say whether messaging is genuinely unlocked.
The question underneath all of this is whether you can message first without paying, at least with free dating.
For a free alternative while you sort out classic free dating, there is always a free alternative.
My working notes on classic free dating, for what they are worth:
- The thing that separates the good ones on classic free dating turned out to be better than I expected
- On classic free dating, how it played out was flat once the novelty wears off compared with the alternatives
- The failure mode with classic free dating is when you assume every profile is current