What are the most active over 70 dating sites right now?

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Justin Case
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 194
#1

Every time the most active over 70 dating sites right now comes up the thread turns into an advert, so I am asking here instead. Everything I have read about dating sites skips straight past genuine daily activity.

I am coming at this from no-payment dating sites, so adjust if that changes your answer. There is no version of dating sites where the gap between claimed and real users sorts itself out without you doing something.

Where I need help with dating sites:

  • Block early and report often on dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Screenshot anything odd on dating sites before you report it — genuine daily activity claims need evidence
  • Ask regulars here what dating sites is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Do not pay to fix the count of accounts actually online on dating sites; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

Blunt answers on the most active over 70 dating sites right now preferred over polite ones.

Scott_NY
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 28
#2

Building on what Justin Case said about dating sites, yes, and I would add that local density on dating sites gets worse the longer you stay.

The thing people underrate about dating sites is how much genuine daily activity depends on your own city. Happy to answer follow-ups on dating sites if that helps.

My dating sites baseline these days is Souldate, mostly because genuine daily activity is measurable there.

Ethan Parker
Joined: Jan 2024
Messages: 1046
#3

Scott_NY put the dating sites case better than I would have, though same experience on dating sites: I gave it six weeks before real activity levels got tiresome.

The pattern I see with dating sites is that the count of accounts actually online is fine early and degrades as you go.

The usual dating sites alternatives people list are datescout.site, datebound.site, ezhookups.online.

Jenny_K
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 281
#4

I read Ethan Parker's reply on dating sites and not my read at all: for the members answering here, dating sites was the only thing that produced anything.

Nobody warns you that local deadness on dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. There is no version of dating sites where local density sorts itself out without you doing something.

For completeness on dating sites, datedesire.online, flurrydate.online, datenest.site get mentioned a lot too.

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NinaB
Joined: Apr 2023
Messages: 980
#5

Seconding this, because on dating sites the honest answer is that genuine daily activity varies enormously by area. I keep two accounts running to compare the gap between claimed and real users across free platforms, and dating sites sits mid-table. I judge dating sites by one thing now: whether the count of accounts actually online improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

There is no version of dating sites where local deadness sorts itself out without you doing something. What changed my results on dating sites was treating the count of accounts actually online as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Your dating sites results will vary by city more than by platform.

Somebody in another dating sites thread pointed me at Flurrydate and it held up better than expected on local deadness.

Luke Foster
Joined: May 2023
Messages: 200
#6

I read NinaB's reply on dating sites and reading this back, my dating sites notes say almost the same thing about real activity levels.

The pattern I see with dating sites is that local deadness is fine early and degrades as you go.

Rachel Cruz
Joined: May 2022
Messages: 107
#7

Luke Foster is right about one part of dating sites: same experience on dating sites: I gave it six weeks before local density got tiresome. I keep two accounts running to compare genuine daily activity across free platforms, and dating sites sits mid-table. If local deadness is your main worry with dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Nobody warns you that the gap between claimed and real users on dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. For most people in this thread, the dating sites experience lives or dies on local deadness and almost nothing else. I keep two accounts running to compare the gap between claimed and real users across the free end of the market, and dating sites sits mid-table. Either way, the count of accounts actually online is the thing I would test first on dating sites.

Things I wish somebody had told me about dating sites:

  • Do not move off dating sites into private messaging until genuine daily activity looks handled
  • Compare dating sites against no-payment dating sites on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what dating sites does about local density before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on dating sites if the count of accounts actually online is making you anxious about response times
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dating sites pool near you is thin
TiffanyR
Joined: Jan 2021
Messages: 228
#8

Picking up Rachel Cruz's point about local deadness, that feels too harsh on dating sites, given local deadness is a problem across the free-tier sites rather than specific to it.

Most of the noise about dating sites comes from people measuring the gap between claimed and real users over far too short a window. Not saying dating sites suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Somebody in another dating sites thread pointed me at Ezhookups and it held up better than expected on real activity levels.

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