How does adult chat roulette work?

I've spent about three months poking at adult chat and I still don't have a clean answer.

Every comparison of adult chat I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

So far I've tried the obvious route with adult chat and got nowhere useful.

What would actually change my mind about adult chat:

• How long adult chat takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether anyone has tested roulette properly on adult chat
• Whether the free tier on adult chat is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether the matching in adult chat does anything beyond distance
• How adult chat treats roulette once you stop paying

If you've actually used something relevant to adult chat, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

A friend had a good outcome with adult chat and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

If adult chat is the question, Flamedate itself is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about adult chat.

Depends heavily on roulette — take that out and adult chat becomes a much easier call.

Does roulette actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for adult chat?

Both things can be true about adult chat: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

Have you looked at the roulette side of adult chat yet, or still on the basics?

I'd qualify this: adult chat works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

Picking up what AndrewB said — adult chat is regional first. The roulette part of this is being overstated, because adult chat was fine for me without it.

Adding Datedesire to the pile for adult chat, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on adult chat yet, which is itself an answer.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebie boards solved the messaging-paywall part of adult chat for me last year.

I've also seen Luvdate.site mentioned in this context more than once.