>>53155405Just ask how they're doing every few days, or ask how their day has been. Not every day at first, because it might come off as obsessive or needy.
I met my wife on a forum 10+ years ago and it just started with asking small ice breakers every now and then until we eventually attended an offline meetup with a bunch of other people from the forum. I didn't even go into it with the intention of asking her out; she was in some heated argument about something in our Skype group and ragequit/left so I just wanted to know how she was doing, and the rest just worked itself out.
