I've done my own digging on used the meetme dating site for actual dating and come up short. The meetme actual case is instructive — the number of live users is worth more than how slick the interface looks, with the usual caveats. The deciding factor is the proportion of dormant accounts, as far as I can tell, which is the whole problem with meetme.
I judge meetme actual on one thing: nothing improves until you treat an empty bio as a red flag. Actual sites is the clearest case of it — half the frustration disappears once you screenshot the pricing page in case it changes. Every time meetme comes up, how much sits behind the paywall is the number worth watching, not star ratings from strangers.
Applied to meetme actual, how far the free tier gets you collapses as soon as the platform pushes notifications that lead nowhere. The honest advice is to check what the free tier gates before investing time, going by the last year or so — and that goes double for used the meetme dating site for actual dating. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on meetme sites.