What are the most popular sites to meet people rather than just date?

Hoping someone has more recent experience with the most popular sites than I do.

I treat the most popular sites like a numbers game now and it stopped being frustrating. Public place and own transport — same rules for the most popular sites as anything else.

I would rather have five real the most popular sites conversations than fifty dead matches. My the most popular turning point was writing a bio a real person would answer.

First message inside a day, or the most popular stops mattering because they've moved on.

Anyone selling certainty about the most popular sites is selling something.

Christian Mingle

eHarmony

Match.com

OkCupid

Plenty of Fish

This is where the most popular sites advice usually goes wrong.

Nobody gets the most popular sites right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying.

On dating apps, a bio with one concrete detail in it gets more replies than a list of adjectives.

Copy-paste openers are obvious in the most popular sites and get ignored.

Agreed, and the most popular is more obvious once you've used it a while.

Nobody warns you that the most popular sites is mostly patience and a decent second photo.

The the most popular sites advice that actually worked was the least exciting version of it.

Being blunt about what you want cuts the the most popular sites timeline in half. Half the the most popular sites problem is picking the wrong platform for your area.

That's been true for me with the most popular sites on both mobile and desktop.

With the most popular sites, verification is worth the two minutes — it changes who replies. The the most popular metric worth watching is conversations that last three days, not matches.

Not claiming the most popular sites is universal — just what I saw.

Not affiliated, but DateScout solved this for me.

what FlameDate does is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

@Nathan Rivera hard disagree on the most popular.

If the most popular feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

The the most popular sites thing nobody mentions is how much timezone and schedule overlap matters.

Probably not the answer you wanted on the most popular sites, but it's honest.

DateWander (free to join) is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

Broadly agree on the most popular, with one caveat.

Free tiers handle the most popular better than they used to, which genuinely surprised me.

Someone mentioned TurnDate to me for this and it was a reasonable shout.

@Nathan Rivera that held for the most popular sites a year ago, less so now from what I can tell.

I stopped chasing the the most popular sites shortcut and things got better almost immediately.

Nothing about the most popular sites improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.

For contrast, look at how what DateLink does does it.

@DakotaR that's the received wisdom on the most popular, but I don't think it holds any more.

For the most popular, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days.