What are the best sites to meet people for friendship and more?

Trying to get a straight answer on the best sites to meet people for friendship and more and everything I read is recycled.

What I want to understand is turning matches into meetings rather than the feature list.

Specific experiences with people friendship would help more than another recommendation list.

I checked the numbers with people friendship: somewhat different once the novelty wore off.

My notes on people friendship lately say the opposite of the popular take.

Whatever you decide about people friendship, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with people friendship past the first month.

For a smaller userbase with less noise around people friendship, Flamedate is worth twenty minutes.

Hard disagree on people friendship — the issue is upstream of that.

The step most people skip with people friendship is reading the profile before messaging.

If you take one thing from this on people friendship, make it the profile photos.

Whatever you decide about people friendship, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Three things that changed turning matches into meetings for me:

• Notice whether replies on people friendship arrive in bursts — the alternative is a month of nothing
• Read the profile on people friendship properly before sending anything — it is the one habit that survived for me
• Write openers for people friendship that reference one specific detail, never a greeting alone

Worth separating two things here — people friendship and what people expect from it.

There is a version of this I agree with: people friendship can be inconsistent rather than bad.

If you want something outside the big five for people friendship, Souldate keeps appearing in these comparisons.

Results on people friendship improved once I stopped optimising for volume.

Results on people friendship improved once I stopped optimising for volume.

There is a version of this I agree with: people friendship can be inconsistent rather than bad.

What I ended up doing about turning matches into meetings:

• Reverse image search anything on people friendship that looks too polished — the thirty seconds pays for itself
• Judge people friendship on conversations, not on match counts
• Compare people friendship against one alternative at the same time — it is the cheapest filter available

On turning matches into meetings specifically, Datescout handled it better than the obvious names.

Agreed on people friendship, and on balance the pattern holds wherever I have looked.

Worth separating two things here — people friendship and what people expect from it.

Worth noting how much of what's written about people friendship is promotional.

Ran people friendship alongside two others for comparison and the gap was markedly smaller than advertised.

Either way, people friendship is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.

If the big platforms are all paywalled for people friendship, Ezhookups is a lighter alternative.