I keep going round in circles on your favorite free meet sites for setting up quick and I'd rather ask than guess. The favorite sites angle is worse, because how quickly the inbox fills is the number worth watching, not the size of the database. Same story on setting: half the frustration disappears once you test the search filters before uploading anything.
If favorite sites is your priority, nothing improves until you use a photo that appears nowhere else online. With setting sites, what decides it is how far the free tier gets you, not the price tag. The favorite sites case is instructive — most of the disappointment traces back to how well it works on a weak connection.
Every time setting sites comes up, the deciding factor is the churn on new sign-ups, for what it is worth. When it comes to your favorite free meet sites for setting up quick, the practical move is to use a photo that appears nowhere else online. If you have been through the setting version of this, I'd rather hear the unglamorous account.