Are there free online friendship sites that aren't about dating?

Short version: free online friendship sites that aren't about dating. Long version below. I do not need a feature list on free online friendship — I need to know about the trial that quietly renews.

Most of my experience is with platforms in this space, which may be why I am stuck. Honestly, the pay-to-see-likes trick was less of a problem on free online friendship than the sheer time it ate.

The parts of free online friendship I keep getting stuck on:

• Treat your first free online friendship profile as a draft, because the paywall punishes lazy ones
• Check what free online friendship does about the pay-to-see-likes trick before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give free online friendship a fortnight of daily use before calling locked messaging a dealbreaker
• Compare free online friendship against what is on offer on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Run free online friendship beside one other option so you have a baseline for the pay-to-see-likes trick

Blunt answers on free online friendship sites that aren't about dating preferred over polite ones.

Seconding this, because on free online friendship the honest answer is that the paywall varies enormously by area.

Nobody warns you that the paywall on free online friendship scales with how many people are online at your hours.

I will push back here, because free online friendship worked fine for me and the pay-to-see-likes trick was never the issue.

If the paywall is your main worry with free online friendship, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Most of the noise about free online friendship comes from people measuring the paywall over far too short a window.

Where I differ from GrWard442 on free online friendship: same experience on free online friendship: I gave it six weeks before the pay-to-see-likes trick got tiresome. I judge free online friendship by one thing now: whether the upgrade nag improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. I keep two accounts running to compare the pay-to-see-likes trick across platforms in this space, and free online friendship sits mid-table. Most of the noise about free online friendship comes from people measuring the trial that quietly renews over far too short a window.

If the point where it starts charging is your main worry with free online friendship, test it in the first week rather than the first month. You can work around the upgrade nag on free online friendship, but you have to be deliberate about it. Nobody warns you that the point where it starts charging on free online friendship scales with how many people are online at your hours. That is my read on free online friendship, and others here clearly disagree.

If you do try free online friendship, do this:

• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — free online friendship rewards it
• Do not pay to fix the trial that quietly renews on free online friendship; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Screenshot anything odd on free online friendship before you report it — the upgrade nag claims need evidence
• Test a free tier that is not free on free online friendship deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves

@Mila Ford makes a fair point about free online friendship, but respectfully no — complaints about surprise billing on free online friendship usually come from people who gave it a week.

The pattern I see with free online friendship is that surprise billing is fine early and degrades as you go.

Things I wish somebody had told me about free online friendship:

• Turn off read receipts on free online friendship if the paywall is making you anxious about response times
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the free online friendship pool near you is thin
• Run free online friendship beside one other option so you have a baseline for the paywall
• Give free online friendship a fortnight of daily use before calling the upgrade nag a dealbreaker
• Treat your first free online friendship profile as a draft, because locked messaging punishes lazy ones

The other one I would try before giving up on free online friendship is Datedesire.

Olivia Powell is right about one part of free online friendship: disagree, because blaming the upgrade nag lets you off the hook — my free online friendship results improved when my profile did.

The pattern I see with free online friendship is that a free tier that is not free is fine early and degrades as you go. You can work around the point where it starts charging on free online friendship, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Disagree, because blaming locked messaging lets you off the hook — my free online friendship results improved when my profile did.

The thing people underrate about free online friendship is how much the pay-to-see-likes trick depends on your own city. Take that as one data point on free online friendship rather than a recommendation.

If you want a second data point on free online friendship, Ezhookups is the one I run alongside it.

This matches what I found with free online friendship, where the pay-to-see-likes trick is exactly where it falls down.

What changed my results on free online friendship was treating surprise billing as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.