What are the best free foreign dating sites for meeting people in Europe?

Posting this after on and off for a year on best free foreign dating sites for meeting people in europe? — local & — my view has shifted twice since.

The recurring problem is that on no-payment platforms, the block function makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones.

My working theory is that on no-payment platforms, how quickly you reply beats the total registered user count.

Open questions, if anyone has dealt with the best free foreign dating sites for meeting people in europe? — local & question:

• Has anyone compared the two directly with no-payment platforms?
• Is that still true once you factor in the which-one question?
• Is that worth the time investment outside Europe?
• Is anyone getting different results given the which-one question?
• Does anyone know if that still holds when the which-one question is the main worry?

After first-hand experience with — local &, not marketing copy.

When the which-one question is the issue, whether the photos look like the same person counts for more than the size of the company behind it, but that is one person with one set of results.

For what it is worth, the willingness to suggest meeting early matters more than the feature list for the general run of people.

I have had a decent run on Flurrydate — free to browse and message, which is the main thing.

This is close to my read — @LilyDates, the bit about local activity is the whole thing really.

What actually frustrates me is that the verification flow surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months.

Can confirm — @LilyDates, the timing observation is the one I'd emphasise.

The recurring problem is that the discovery feed produces a template reply and closes the ticket, which is the real problem with no-payment platforms.

For most of us, how specific you're about what you want tends to decide how many replies you get in a week, which might just be most of us where the which-one question is concerned.

For a straight comparison, Datewander if you want something to compare against.

Has anyone compared the two directly across no-payment platforms?

On no-payment platforms, deleting everything and starting over turned it from a chore into something workable.

For a straight comparison, Datenest purely on how busy it is locally.

As far as I can tell, for most of us, the amount of detail in a bio tends to decide the odds of a second date.

I'd add Datebound if you want something to compare against.

On balance, the size of the company behind it gets the credit but how narrow your filters are does the work, and the sample size here is basically one.

On no-payment platforms, shortening the bio by half stopped the conversations dying at day two.

For what it is worth, how quickly you reply is a better predictor of how long a conversation lasts than the app's overall download figures.

Pretty much this — @SkylerN, the profile-quality point is the whole thing really.

What nobody mentions is that the account activity indicator exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade, which is the real problem with no-payment platforms.