Genuine question about any free no cost dating sites from someone who's tried the obvious routes. What decides it is the signal-to-noise in search, not raw member count, which is the whole problem with cost sites. Same story on cost sites: nothing improves until you run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos.
I judge suggest cost on one thing: you get further if you report problems early instead of blocking quietly. If suggest sites is your priority, the platform shows dormant accounts as active, and how far the free tier gets you suffers for it. Suggest is the clearest case of it — the practical move is to check what the free tier gates before investing time.
For suggest sites in particular, the reply rate is the number worth watching, not the marketing copy. Most threads about any free no cost dating sites miss this — the gap between sign-ups and active users tells you more than the size of the database. Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about cost sites.