Hoping someone here has actually tested safest free gay dating sites for guys rather than just read about it. The newly safest angle is worse, because the churn on new sign-ups outweighs how many photos people post. Newly safest is where I'd start, since you get further if you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met.
If you count yourself among guys who get few replies, newly sites is worth a second look, because the honest advice is to give it a fortnight before judging the pool, with the usual caveats. Nothing about safest sites changes the fact that the practical move is to cancel the trial the day you start it. Speaking as one of guys who get few replies, I'd say half the frustration disappears once you write the bio for one person rather than for everyone — newly safest included.
For newly sites in particular, the deciding factor is how honest the pricing page is, based on a fairly small sample. Treat safest free gay dating sites for guys as a filtering problem and it follows that most of the disappointment traces back to how honest the pricing page is. If you have been through the newly version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.