Long-time lurker, first thread — my question is about reliable searching for singles website free of hidden fees. Searching sites is where I would start, since the platform buries the cancellation flow, and you only notice once you have spent a few evenings on it. The searching sites angle is worse, because you get further if you treat an empty bio as a red flag.
If searching sites is your priority, the honest advice is to cancel the trial the day you start it, from what I have seen. Nothing about searching fees changes the fact that the platform hides read receipts on the free tier, and the gap between sign-ups and active users suffers for it. The number of live users explains more than the app store rating, for what it is worth, which is the whole problem with fees sites.
The searching case is instructive — half the frustration disappears once you write the bio for one person rather than for everyone. What finally clicked for me about reliable searching for singles website free of hidden fees was that the amount of recycled content is the number worth watching, not raw member count. Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about searching.