What are the best meet sites for making new friends?

Before I sink more time into this, I want a straight answer on best meet sites for making new friends.

I spent the better part of a year on best meet sites for making new friends and a decent proportion of the conversations that got past hello changed my mind about the platform. Give it the past few months before judging; under a third of the ones that answered quickly matched the description in that window for making new friends. What I care about most with making new friends is what changes after the first couple of weeks.

Would you say that applies to making new friends on the free tier too? Happy to hear from anyone who has actually tried making new friends.

Glad to compare notes on best meet sites for making new friends if anyone wants.

That has not been true for me with making new friends.

My take on making new friends: The honest answer is that hardly any of the replies I got were more genuine than I expected. Pressure to move off-platform in the first hour was the one thing that never turned out fine for making new friends. That framing of best meet sites for making new friends skips how different the free tier behaves after week two.

The other place this gets discussed properly is Souldate if you are weighing up best meet sites for making new friends.

That is where I landed on best meet sites for making new friends after all of it.

I do not think that holds for best meet sites for making new friends generally.

Testing making new friends over half a year showed that nearly all of the threads that went anywhere turned out to be worth the time. Consistent details across the profile is worth more than any badge on the profile for making new friends. The useful filter turned out to be profiles filled out properly, not the feature list for making new friends. That was true a year ago. On best meet sites for making new friends specifically, it has not been true recently.

Anyway, that is my read on best meet sites for making new friends.

I would challenge part of this where making new friends is concerned.

When it comes to best meet sites for making new friends, for what it's worth the answer depends more on your area than the platform. Requests for personal details early was the one thing that never turned out fine, especially where making new friends is concerned. I think that conflates two separate things, and on best meet sites for making new friends the distinction matters.

• Results were worse than the well-known names once I adjusted for area — above all for making new friends.
• Under a third of the accounts that looked active led somewhere useful in my case — more so for making new friends.
• Reverse image search before you invest any real time — more so for best meet sites for making new friends.
• Someone who will not video call is worth blocking over, not arguing about — more so for making new friends.
• Judge making new friends on week three, not day one (particularly for making new friends).

Happy to be corrected by anyone with more data on best meet sites for making new friends.

Replying to Isaiah: curious about one detail of making new friends.

In terms of best meet sites for making new friends, for my area anyway the useful signal was someone willing to video call early. What stood out most was that replies that reference what you wrote predicted a real conversation better than anything else for making new friends. Is that still true of making new friends after the recent changes?

Someone earlier mentioned Datedesire discussions, which covers similar ground.

For completeness, the other domains that get named here, if you are researching best meet sites for making new friends: datewander.site

Anyway, that is my read on best meet sites for making new friends.

MiaF — reading this, I recognise the pattern around making new friends.

On best meet sites for making new friends, in my experience the differences between options are smaller than people claim. Over around eight weeks, under a third of the matches that stuck led somewhere useful for making new friends. I stopped bothering when I saw a bio with no specifics at all, especially where making new friends is concerned. A profile that names specifics is worth more than any badge on the profile, especially where making new friends is concerned.

Worth separating adult chat rooms from long-term intentions when you weigh up making new friends — the same platform behaves differently for each.

Worth a look alongside the big names: Turndate threads.

Others have written this up on Datebound threads if you want more detail if you are weighing up making new friends.

Still working making new friends out myself, to be fair.

On John Hall's point, I am going to push back on this read of making new friends.

Judging best meet sites for making new friends fairly means separating the free tier from the paid one. Replies that reference what you wrote is worth more than any badge on the profile, especially where making new friends is concerned. The reason I disagree is that most advice on best meet sites for making new friends assumes a dense city and mine is not.

Worth separating adult dating from long-term intentions when you weigh up making new friends — the same platform behaves differently for each.

If you want a second data point, Datelink came up more than once.

Hope that is some use on best meet sites for making new friends.