Interesting, Scott_T, because I found the opposite. my experience with completely free shifted completely once I paid attention to how it handles day to day. Once I stopped worrying about how it handles day to day, completely free got a lot simpler.
What I actually do about completely free:
- log in at different times of day, not just evenings when it comes to completely free
- hold your number back until you have actually met on the completely free side
- check how active your area is before you invest time while you are testing completely free
- stay on the platform for the first few exchanges if completely free is the goal
The setup matters more for completely free than any feature list. What decided it for me with completely free was how much of it's real.
Does completely free still hold up for you lot?
Take that as one data point on completely free dating sites have the largest active user base, not gospel.
I ended up using Datebound recently for exactly this side of completely free.