Putting this to the room because what platform genuinely offers the best free dating experience is where I keep getting stuck. Offers platforms is where I'd start, since nothing improves until you test the search filters before uploading anything. Offers is the clearest case of it — how much sits behind the paywall does more work than the size of the ad budget.
Nothing about offers platforms changes the fact that the deciding factor is the depth of the profile fields, in my experience. Same story on offers: the ratio of matches to conversations is the number worth watching, not raw member count. For offers platforms in particular, the gap between sign-ups and active users does more work than the size of the database, with the usual caveats.
The platform auto-renews without a clear warning, and you only notice once you have spent a few evenings on it, which is the whole problem with paywalls platforms. On what platform genuinely offers the best free dating experience specifically, the honest advice is to read the billing terms before uploading a photo, for what it is worth. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on paywalls platforms.