Are there any reliable free friendship sites that don't secretly turn into dating sites?

Trying to settle any reliable free friendship sites that don't secretly turn into dating sites for myself and the reviews are useless. My problem with secretly dating sites so far has been the point where it starts charging.

I am coming at this from no-payment dating sites, so adjust if that changes your answer. The pattern I see with secretly dating sites is that the trial that quietly renews is fine early and degrades as you go.

Concretely, for secretly dating sites:

• Do not move off secretly dating sites into private messaging until the point where it starts charging looks handled
• Compare secretly dating sites against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what secretly dating sites does about the upgrade nag before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Turn off read receipts on secretly dating sites if the upgrade nag is making you anxious about response times
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the secretly dating sites pool near you is thin

Even a one-line answer on any reliable free friendship sites that don't secretly turn into dating sites would help at this point.

That tracks with my secretly dating sites run, which was fine until the point where it starts charging became the whole experience. Most of the noise about secretly dating sites comes from people measuring the upgrade nag over far too short a window. What changed my results on secretly dating sites was treating the upgrade nag as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Honestly, locked messaging was less of a problem on secretly dating sites than the sheer time it ate. There is no version of secretly dating sites where the point where it starts charging sorts itself out without you doing something. Not saying secretly dating sites suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

The short version for secretly dating sites:

• Screenshot anything odd on secretly dating sites before you report it — the trial that quietly renews claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — secretly dating sites rewards it
• Block early and report often on secretly dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything

Not my read at all: for the members answering here, secretly dating sites was the only thing that produced anything.

What changed my results on secretly dating sites was treating locked messaging as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. You can work around surprise billing on secretly dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I keep Flurrydate open as a control while testing secretly dating sites — useful for judging surprise billing honestly.

Not my read at all: for people who have actually tried it, secretly dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. You can work around the pay-to-see-likes trick on secretly dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The pattern I see with secretly dating sites is that the paywall is fine early and degrades as you go. Happy to answer follow-ups on secretly dating sites if that helps.

I have seen datebound.site, rendate.site, souldate.site recommended for secretly dating sites, though I have not tested them properly.

That tracks with my secretly dating sites run, which was fine until the trial that quietly renews became the whole experience. Nobody warns you that locked messaging on secretly dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The thing people underrate about secretly dating sites is how much the pay-to-see-likes trick depends on your own city. Most of the noise about secretly dating sites comes from people measuring the pay-to-see-likes trick over far too short a window. The thing people underrate about secretly dating sites is how much the trial that quietly renews depends on your own city.

Somebody in another secretly dating sites thread pointed me at Datelink and it held up better than expected on the upgrade nag.

Disagree, because blaming the paywall lets you off the hook — my secretly dating sites results improved when my profile did. For the crowd on this board, the secretly dating sites experience lives or dies on the upgrade nag and almost nothing else.

You can work around the trial that quietly renews on secretly dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. I judge secretly dating sites by one thing now: whether the upgrade nag improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

The usual secretly dating sites alternatives people list are datelink.online, datenest.site, datedesire.online.