It's been a while since I've been online dating (almost a decade), but the best site I found was not even a dating site (well, not primarily a dating site, but most people there tended to be single):
I'd sign up for hikes and other things I was interested in and met a lot of women, dated a few. One good thing is that you'd tend to see the same people over and over, so you can get past the quick 10 second "like or not" rut that you get into with online dating, and you start to see people more for their personality.
But it's a time investment, with online dating I could typically go out on one or two dates a week, while with meetup hikes, I'd maybe find someone to date every month or two of weekend hiking.
Ultimately though, I found my wife on a whim through a non-dating chat service - she was living thousands of miles from me and I picked her pretty much at random (no profile, no picture, just a username, age, and gender). Took nearly a year of chatting before we even met in person.
https://www.meetup.com/
I'd sign up for hikes and other things I was interested in and met a lot of women, dated a few. One good thing is that you'd tend to see the same people over and over, so you can get past the quick 10 second "like or not" rut that you get into with online dating, and you start to see people more for their personality.
But it's a time investment, with online dating I could typically go out on one or two dates a week, while with meetup hikes, I'd maybe find someone to date every month or two of weekend hiking.
Ultimately though, I found my wife on a whim through a non-dating chat service - she was living thousands of miles from me and I picked her pretty much at random (no profile, no picture, just a username, age, and gender). Took nearly a year of chatting before we even met in person.