What are the best meet sites for making platonic friends as an adult?

Treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it. What are the best meet sites for making platonic friends as an adult?

My take: the profiles that get replies are the specific ones, not the polished ones — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip.

• Every time I accepted that not every match was going to lead anywhere, and it saved me a lot of grief
• Every time I treated it as a slow process rather than a numbers game
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In my experience, a month is about the minimum before judging any platform — that has been consistent for me across a few different platforms.

In my experience, most matches go nowhere and that is normal rather than a failure — it took me longer than it should have to work that out.

My take: a nickname for the first few weeks costs you nothing — nobody tells you this at the start. the Turndate site

Having tried a few, the slow approach tends to produce better outcomes than the volume one — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it. One thing I notice: most matches go nowhere and that is normal rather than a failure — your mileage may well differ. Luvdate is worth a try if you haven't already. datebound.site

From what I have seen, comparing your results to anyone else's is a losing game — others here may have had a different experience. Having tried a few, the people posting about success are a tiny and unrepresentative sample — small thing, but it adds up. Also seendatingfly.online come up positively in similar threads.

Having tried a few, consistency matters more than intensity here — i would not have believed it a year ago.

Requests to move to a private app immediately are worth declining — others here may have had a different experience. Someone here pointed me toward Datelink and it turned out to be one of the better options. the Souldate site

Broadly speaking, linking social accounts to a dating profile creates problems later — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.