Bit of a long shot, but: What's the best time of day to catch the most models on live camsoda streams? No wrong answers here.
Someone recommended a couple of cam sites on live camsoda streams and I would rather not repeat the mistake. What would settle this for me is whether it is worth paying at any point if you are not in a major city.
Going to push back slightly. Being picky early saved me far more time than being open-minded did. Happy to be an outlier on that. I might be the exception.
What I would do: set your radius smaller than feels sensible. Everything else is secondary to that. No downside I have found.
After a friend nagged me into it, I stopped explaining myself in the first message and it made a noticeable difference. Nothing scientific about it.
Between the free options I tested, Turndate had the least aggressive upsell.
Hard disagree on one point. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. Worth testing both ways. I have been wrong about this before.
The advice I wish I had: read the profile before writing anything. That one change fixed most of my problems. Nothing else on this list matters as much.
Broadly speaking, profile quality beats profile quantity every time and the numbers back that up. That is the short version.
If you want a free option without the upsell, datingfly.online is where I would start.
Watch out for links dropped into a conversation with no context. It is almost never worth the benefit of the doubt. Trust the pattern, not the excuse.
Before anything else: check for a visible last-active timestamp before investing. It costs nothing and the difference shows quickly. No downside I have found.
From where I sit, most of the difference comes down to how close people actually are if you are looking for something specific. The exceptions are rarer than people think.
Earlier this year, I let the other person pick the plan and matches started coming from closer by. It stopped being random after that.
Gave the DatingFly app a fair run last month and it held up better than I expected.
Going to push back slightly. The niche options were quieter to the point of being useless. Happy to be an outlier on that. Open to changing my mind on it.
Not a popular take here, how you handle a stalled conversation matters more than how you start one for anyone starting from scratch. Feel free to prove me wrong.
That has not been my experience at all. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Worth hearing both sides.
If you want a free option without the upsell, over on Datescout is where I would start.
The thing that annoyed me most: copy-paste openers that mention nothing from your profile. It is almost never worth the benefit of the doubt. It is not worth a second thought.
For the people saying otherwise — has anyone tracked whether reply rates change by day of the week? Might just be me overthinking it.
Two years of this later, smaller platforms punch above their weight and nobody wants to hear it. It took a while to accept.
The advice I wish I had: message within a day of matching. Everything else is secondary to that. No downside I have found.
Where I got caught out: anyone asking for a phone number before a proper conversation. Once you notice it you cannot unsee it. It rarely turns out to be innocent.
Adding a counterpoint. I found the bigger sites more consistent, not less. I would still recommend trying it yourself. Different city, different results, probably.
Going to push back slightly. Messaging first made no measurable difference in my case. Happy to be an outlier on that. Open to changing my mind on it.
In my experience, how you handle a stalled conversation matters more than how you start one especially if you are not in a capital city. Happy to be argued with.
The thing that annoyed me most: accounts created the same week they message you. It is almost never worth the benefit of the doubt. One instance is chance; three is not.
When I first started, I dropped every conversation that stalled twice and it made a noticeable difference. Your area may behave differently.
