I keep going round in circles on free dating sites like plenty of fish and I'd rather ask than guess. Look closely at plenty sites and the signal-to-noise in search does more work than how slick the interface looks. With filters sites, the platform keeps deleted profiles in search for weeks, so it pays to keep the first meet public and short.
Same story on filters sites: the platform boosts newer accounts over established ones, and the gap between sign-ups and active users suffers for it. For filters sites in particular, you get further if you cancel the trial the day you start it. The filters angle is worse, because the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and that is usually where the goodwill runs out.
If filters plenty is your priority, what decides it is how far the free tier gets you, not the size of the ad budget. It is worth checking how far the free tier gets you before you look at whatever the landing page promises — and that goes double for free dating sites like plenty of fish. Anyone who has tested filters plenty properly, please weigh in.