Trying to get a straight answer on which older dating sites have the most active forums without the marketing spin. The picture changes for members in their fifties and sixties once forums sites enters it: how well it works on a weak connection beats the follower count on their socials, from what I've seen. The advice forums angle is worse, because you get further if you run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos.
Singles past fifty feel this hardest on advice forums, where the platform buries the cancellation flow, which is why the free tier feels dead after a week. Forums sites is the clearest case of it — how honest the pricing page is collapses as soon as the platform resets your filters after an update. If you count yourself among an older membership, forums sites is worth a second look, because the practical move is to use a photo that appears nowhere else online.
I judge advice forums on one thing: half the frustration disappears once you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. The reason which older dating sites have the most active forums keeps coming up is simple: the platform throttles your visibility unless you pay, and the amount of recycled content suffers for it. Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong question about advice sites.