What are the free local personals that replaced the old Craigslist?

Hoping someone here has done the legwork on the free local personals that replaced the old Craigslist.

My actual question is narrower: the pricing catch.

Happy to be told I'm thinking about Craigslist personals the wrong way.

Tested Craigslist personals deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

Treat Craigslist personals as a starting point rather than an answer.

Your read on Craigslist personals lines up with mine in the past year.

It is narrower than that: Craigslist personals can fail in one specific way rather than generally.

One smaller option that comes up whenever Craigslist personals is discussed is Datelink — the users who find it tend to know what they want.

Ryan, that has not been my experience of Craigslist personals.practically speaking, blaming Craigslist personals misses what's actually going on.

I went in with low expectations, and what stood out about Craigslist personals was how quickly the pattern set in.

What I ended up doing about the pricing catch:

• Treat your first week with Craigslist personals as reconnaissance rather than outreach
• Assume Craigslist personals is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
• Rewrite your Craigslist personals profile once you have seen how others there present themselves

If you take one thing from this on Craigslist personals, make it the profile photos.

Kept a tally on Craigslist personals this year and the numbers were not what I expected.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with Craigslist personals past the first month.

Datescout gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for Craigslist personals.

Nobody's numbers on Craigslist personals are as solid as they sound, mine included.

Worth adding Souldate to whatever shortlist you are building around Craigslist personals.

Both can be true: Craigslist personals can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.

If you take one thing from this on Craigslist personals, make it the profile photos.