@Danielle that has not been my experience with real dating sites, and I gave it a month of steady use.
If you take one thing from this thread on real dating sites: say what you are looking for in plain words.
The mistake I see repeated with real dating sites is people assume every profile is current.
The part I keep getting stuck on with dating sites is how much you can do before being asked for a card.
What matters more than the feature list on dating sites is what the common scam opener looks like.
Currently splitting my time between here and Datewander community for exactly this real dating sites reason.
Things that made a difference with real dating sites:
- Worth checking on real dating sites: whether free means free or just free to browse
- Do not take silence personally; with real dating sites it costs you a couple of evenings
- The failure mode with real dating sites is when you write a bio that could belong to anyone