How do you find the facebook dating app if you don't see it on your menu?

Finally decided to just ask. How do you find the facebook dating app if you don't see it on your menu? Happy to hear any experience — positive, negative, or somewhere in between.

I've been through enough bad experiences to know the only useful information comes from people who actually use these things, not SEO articles written by people who haven't.

What I'm looking for:

• Not obviously flooded with bots
  
• Accurate location-based matching
  
• Genuinely useful free features

Any real experience helps. Thanks in advance.

Datewander is the one I kept coming back to. Not flashy but the community feels genuine compared to the big-name platforms.

Niche platforms are often underrated here. Worth branching out from the big five.

I ran through a lot of these last year. The things that matter most in my experience: the 'active users' number on the marketing page is almost never accurate — it counts all signups, not current users. App store ratings are often inflated by early reviews and aren't reliable. Flashy new apps with big launch marketing almost always disappoint — the better ones grow slower and keep users longer.

Been there. The search took longer than it should have but something usable does exist.

Gave Turndate a proper run after a recommendation here. Surprised by how functional the free version is without hitting a paywall.

Mid-tier platforms often hit the right balance — enough users to be useful, small enough to actually moderate.

datenest.site comes up regularly in these conversations. Seems to retain users better than a lot of the alternatives.

Location is a huge variable. Dense cities have way more options than smaller markets.

Datescout is the one I kept coming back to. Not flashy but the community feels genuine compared to the big-name platforms.