thx! 4 replay, thats all I wanted to know.
I suppose now this is really best and biggest free dating service.
Good! and thx for free registration. Members of other not-free sites can just be impressed our free speak and nice community.

sorry starting this controversial thread....by the way ; )
I didn`t know it will be so loud responce and didn`t want to hurt anyone

/l.

it is currently number 5 of all uk dating sites including the non-free dating sites accordings to the statistics. number one is loopylove in the uk, but it is bloody expensive.

now and then new ones are cropping up quickly but then disappearing again as they run out of money for advertising the website or because they come 5 years too late...

there is another one currently (which i dont mention) that received lots of money from venture capitalists....but they make lots of mistakes and I am sure they run out of money soon, too. i dont think it is that easy to pay for office rent, employees...even the software development by an external company...and at the same time make a profit without ripping people off.

some dating sites dont even require a valid email address when you register, then they pretend to have 235,000 members although 180,000 of them never logged in again...as they were just setup as additional profiles by the same members....on flirtbox you can register but you cant contact anyone without confirming your email address....and profiles of people that have never been active are automatically deleted.

i also keep an eye on other dating sites and already have good ideas for the relaunch...whenever that will me. whenever i test other dating sites and I found out stuff you dont want to know (e.g. when you use sometingsecret@domain.com as an email that you never used anywhere else and suddenly you are spammed with all kinds of emails).

The worst thing on pay sites is that you receive mails saying you have a new message...when you login you need to pay to read it...and in the end it was a fake message...

The psychological factor is that people are always tempted to think "if it costs so much money, it must be good" or "if i dont spend 100 pounds on this website i will never find someone"......but that's bullsh*t...and that is also the reason why "premium" dating sites are full of desperate men with lots of money...or with lots of debts.

Toby, how well advertised is this site? I'd never heard of it till yesterday, and that was only by accident that I found it. Tbh at first I was a little put off by the name, I thought it would be some sort of shag fest, but I joined anyway and obviously liked the look if it I really liked the all the tick boxes that come up when you join - you know, for music etc, I thought that was a great feature.

it is not advertised...anywhere.

i started with that (flirtweb.co.uk and internetflirt.co.uk was it called before for some months) in 1999.

At that time there were only 3 dating sites as far as I remember...all of the were cheaply done AND bloody expensive......

the early you start with a site the easier it is.

Imagine you wanted to compete with Ebay or youtube now - impossible.

The earlier you start with a website the better - the later you start the harder it gets. Nowadays you would need 1,000,000 for advertising to get it started.....and even then people might stop coming to the website once you dont advertise it anymore.

Many people come to the website regularly for a couple of years and check out new profiles...they sometimes do that for such a long time now that it belongs to their "internet life" the same way as google.

Sometimes people have a relationship or get bored...but come back a year later again...or some months later....

i know that other dating sites are getting more attractive with more features....and i know I have to "upgrade" the website sooner or later...but on the other hand there are many website such as plentyoffish that are done in a really cheap way but are still popular.

(plentyoffish is more popular among people from the usa though.....)

anyway...enough for now...

There are a couple of websites Ive registered on, and got bored with that are free.

Flirtbox is the best I thinkl because you know you are writing to real people and dont get spammed


The others seam to be full of people living outside the UK, american and russians (russians, living in the UK in Liverpool, Strathclyde - a mark of a scammer when they cant get basic facts right), or the search isnt very good, so basically I would say this is the best on free one. There is one that is OK but there are few members in my area, and no discussion board.

Some websites offer a free couple of weeks, OK if you can write to everyone in that time and give out e-mail address to carry on a relationship.

But my mind is that whatever is on the internet, there should be someone who is willing to offer the information for free (and who is single is information)

do you think this site will ever have live chat?