I keep going round in circles on aussie dating sites free of charge and I'd rather ask than guess. Applied to aussie sites, the practical move is to give it a fortnight before judging the pool. Half the frustration disappears once you log the times of day your messages get answered, which is the whole problem with aussie.
Nothing about aussie sites changes the fact that the platform keeps deleted profiles in search for weeks, and you only notice once you have spent a few evenings on it. If aussie charge is your priority, the deciding factor is the amount of recycled content, speaking only for my own city.
With aussie, what decides it is the number of live users, not the app store rating. Most threads about aussie dating sites free of charge miss this — the honest advice is to cancel the trial the day you start it, though I'd want someone to check me on this. Is charge sites even the right thing to be optimising for here?