Where is the best gay meet up site for making new friends?

Trying to settle the best gay meet up site for making new friends for myself and the reviews are useless. Everything I have read about gay meet site skips straight past the payoff.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about what is on offer. There is no version of gay meet site where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

Specifically, on gay meet site I would like to know:

• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on gay meet site
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; gay meet site activity is nothing like flat
• Test the hours-to-dates ratio on gay meet site deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Block early and report often on gay meet site — it trains the feed faster than anything

Even a one-line answer on the best gay meet up site for making new friends would help at this point.

Ben1989 put the gay meet site case better than I would have, though yes, and I would add that the effort-to-result ratio on gay meet site gets worse the longer you stay. What changed my results on gay meet site was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

You can work around actually getting anywhere on gay meet site, but you have to be deliberate about it. Either way, the payoff is the thing I would test first on gay meet site.

How I would approach gay meet site from scratch:

• Do not move off gay meet site into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
• Compare gay meet site against the sites people keep naming on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what gay meet site does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed

That feels too harsh on gay meet site, given actually getting anywhere is a problem across platforms in this space rather than specific to it.

Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on gay meet site than the sheer time it ate. The pattern I see with gay meet site is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

Practical bits, if you are trying gay meet site:

• Give gay meet site a fortnight of daily use before calling the effort-to-result ratio a dealbreaker
• Treat your first gay meet site profile as a draft, because the effort-to-result ratio punishes lazy ones
• Message within a day of matching — on gay meet site that window closes fast

A smaller name people rarely mention in gay meet site threads is Ezhookups.

I read Jared Stone's reply on gay meet site and agreed, although with gay meet site I would frame the time it costs as a symptom rather than the cause. I judge gay meet site by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

If the payoff is your main worry with gay meet site, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Not saying gay meet site suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

That tracks with my gay meet site run, which was fine until the return on the hours became the whole experience.

I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across the sites people keep naming, and gay meet site sits mid-table.

Yes, and I would add that the time it costs on gay meet site gets worse the longer you stay.

If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with gay meet site, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Most of the noise about gay meet site comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window.

For contrast with gay meet site I would look at DatingFly; the free tier there behaves differently.