Trying to get a straight answer on the most active free gay meet up sites and everything I read is recycled.
Everything hinges on how much you end up paying as far as I'm concerned.
Concrete examples around active free welcome, vague reassurance less so.
#2
I had the opposite result with active free, and I gave it a fair run.
One adjustment worth making with active free: treat the first week as observation only.
#3
Tested active free deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
Whatever you decide about active free, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.
My notes on active free recently say the opposite of the popular take.
What I ended up doing about how much you end up paying:
Treat your first week with active free as reconnaissance rather than outreach
Assume active free is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
Rewrite your active free profile once you have seen how others there present themselves
#4
TraceyL is closer to it than the rest of this thread on active free.small thing, big effect on active free: write openers that reference something specific.
Kept a tally on active free across a few weeks and the numbers were not what I expected.
#5
Practically speaking, opinion on active free swings further than the reality does.
Depends heavily on context — active free can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Ran active free alongside two others for comparison and the gap was measurably smaller than advertised.
For anyone stuck on how much you end up paying, Datebie is at least worth ruling in or out — it took about ten minutes to form a view.
#6
Worth noting how much of what's written about active free is promotional.
If you take one thing from this on active free, make it the profile photos.
Kept a tally on active free in the past year and the numbers were not what I expected.
#7
SandyB raises the part of active free that matters.can confirm on active free; distinctly the same result on my end.
Whatever you decide about active free, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.
The one I keep returning to for active free is Datedesire, mostly because the messaging is genuinely open.
#8
I gave it a fair run, and what stood out about active free was how quickly the pattern set in.
One adjustment worth making with active free: treat the first week as observation only.
Worth adding Datewander to whatever shortlist you are building around active free.
#9
If you take one thing from this on active free, make it the profile photos.
The useful test for active free is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.
Either way, active free is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.
Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with active free past the first month.
#10
Depends heavily on context — active free can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Both can be true: active free can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.
If you take one thing from this on active free, make it the profile photos.
Ezhookups gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for active free.