Putting this to the room because free dating sites no charge ever, run by volunteers is where I keep getting stuck. Every time open-source sites comes up, the honest advice is to keep the first meet public and short, though I would want someone to check me on this. Applied to open-source sites, nothing improves until you read the newest reviews rather than the top-rated ones.
If open-source sites is your priority, what decides it is the amount of recycled content, not how many photos people post. Most of the disappointment traces back to the reply rate, which is the whole problem with open-source.
I judge volunteers sites on one thing: how far the free tier gets you moves the needle further than the app store rating, speaking only for my own city. The short version on free dating sites no charge ever, run by volunteers is that the platform makes verification optional and then hides who has done it, and the number of live users suffers for it. What am I missing on open-source volunteers?