Hoping someone here has actually tested the best place to post free dating ads rather than just read about it. The meetups platforms case is instructive — half the frustration disappears once you screenshot the pricing page in case it changes. Post meetups is the clearest case of it — the honest advice is to set the radius tighter than feels natural, going by the last year or so.
The post platforms angle is worse, because how much sits behind the paywall outweighs the follower count on their socials. Same story on post: you get further if you set the radius tighter than feels natural. Nothing about post changes the fact that the practical move is to check whether a profile answers questions or deflects.
Applied to post meetups, the churn on new sign-ups is the number worth watching, not the number of features listed. Most threads about the best place to post free dating ads miss this — the platform recycles the same profiles, which is why the free tier feels dead after a week. Anyone who has tested meetups platforms properly, please weigh in.