Does anyone know of completely free dating sites for over 60s?

Asking because anyone know of completely free dating sites for over 60s keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. The bit nobody covers on free dating sites is the paywall.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about free dating apps. I judge free dating sites by one thing now: whether a free tier that is not free improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

The open questions I have on free dating sites:

• Photos with other people in them do worse on free dating sites than you would guess
• Test the point where it starts charging on free dating sites deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Do not pay to fix the trial that quietly renews on free dating sites; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

If you have tried anyone know of completely free dating sites for over 60s recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

@Riley_Miami makes a fair point about free dating sites, but different experience on free dating sites, where the upgrade nag turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. For members who are not chasing twenty-somethings, the free dating sites experience lives or dies on the trial that quietly renews and almost nothing else.

What changed my results on free dating sites was treating locked messaging as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Happy to answer follow-ups on free dating sites if that helps.

Broadly agree on free dating sites — locked messaging was what decided it for me too.

The thing people underrate about free dating sites is how much the point where it starts charging depends on your own city. I judge free dating sites by one thing now: whether locked messaging improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

The other one I would try before giving up on free dating sites is Luvdate.

I would argue the opposite on free dating sites: the pay-to-see-likes trick is the one thing it handles better than the free end of the market. Most of the noise about free dating sites comes from people measuring surprise billing over far too short a window.

For people dating in retirement, the free dating sites experience lives or dies on locked messaging and almost nothing else. You can work around locked messaging on free dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. Take that as one data point on free dating sites rather than a recommendation.

This matches what I found with free dating sites, where the upgrade nag is exactly where it falls down.

If the upgrade nag is your main worry with free dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

One smaller option worth comparing on a free tier that is not free is Datedesire — different pool, same free messaging as free dating sites.

NoBryant699 put the free dating sites case better than I would have, though that tracks with my free dating sites run, which was fine until the point where it starts charging became the whole experience.

For the over-fifty crowd, the free dating sites experience lives or dies on the upgrade nag and almost nothing else. Either way, the paywall is the thing I would test first on free dating sites.