Hoping someone here has actually tested which flirting sites have the most active user base rather than just read about it. The flirting base case is instructive — half the frustration disappears once you ask a specific question in the first message. Flirting is the clearest case of it — the honest advice is to set the radius tighter than feels natural, as far as I can tell.
I judge flirting sites on one thing: you get further if you ask a specific question in the first message. Look closely at base sites and the platform counts a like as a match, so it pays to keep the first meet public and short. If flirting base is your priority, how often the same faces reappear is worth more than the follower count on their socials, speaking only for my own city.
For flirting in particular, the quality of the filters is the number worth watching, not raw member count. Treat which flirting sites have the most active user base as a filtering problem and it follows that the share of verified profiles collapses as soon as the platform quietly widens your distance setting. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on flirting sites.