😖Complaints about this site no longer being free for sending messages

From March 2023 to July 2024, we were a free website. Now we charge a low, non-recurring annual fee to send messages to other members. Replying to messages sent to you by other members is free. At the time of writing, we are considerably cheaper than other websites in our genre.

We had a choice. We could either continue being a free website or we could advertise more. With more advertisements on news and large social media sites we can accumulate more members. This means you have more chance of finding someone in your city. We wrote to tens of alternative websites and asked for free or low-cost publicity. Only three sites mentioned our website for no payment.

There are many free messenger apps and social media sites. Many of them receive money from advertisements, the stock market (this means your pension funds), government, university grants and billionaires. Even if the company does not receive government money directly, they will be linked to companies receiving government money. We are independent and have no such sources of funds.

There are problems with free sites. Eventually they are overrun with spam and your inbox will be full of junk and unsolicited messages advertising products. Anyone can join at anytime and say anything they want with no cost. Blocking annoying users won’t work as new accounts can be freely created.

If someone wants to cover our costs, we can consider moving back to a free website.

It is still free to create an account on our site and search for other members by city. Replying to messages sent to you is still free.

One of the original aims of this website is so that people won’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on dating and meeting websites. We can’t accomplish this by being entirely free, but we can do this by being low-cost.

To date we have targeted the UK, Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden with adverts in news websites and printed newspapers. At the time of writing we are using Twitter/X to run adverts in UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France and Italy. Twitter gives us the opportunity to advertise in a wide range of countries. Given we have limited funds, our adverts may be ending soon.