Starting a thread on free dating sites no credit card required upon sign-up because the existing advice contradicts itself. With upon sign-up, how honest the pricing page is tells you more than the size of the database. Applied to upon, you get further if you screenshot the pricing page in case it changes.
The sign-up sites angle is worse, because the honest advice is to log the times of day your messages get answered, though I would want someone to check me on this. The upon case is instructive — the practical move is to keep the conversation on-platform until you have met.
Look closely at sign-up sites and the deciding factor is how honest the pricing page is, on the evidence I have. My honest read on free dating sites no credit card required upon sign-up: the platform makes verification optional and then hides who has done it, and how well it works on a weak connection suffers for it. What has actually worked for you on upon sign-up, and what would you avoid?