Is adult chat still the best way to spend a lonely Friday night?

Would appreciate honest takes on adult chat — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

The problem with researching adult chat is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

Practically speaking, for adult chat I want to know:

• Whether adult chat has real users outside the big metros
• How long adult chat takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• What happens to your data if you delete a adult chat account
• How much of the adult chat profile pool is dormant or fake

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on adult chat.

Since we're comparing options around adult chat, the Datebie threads came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with adult chat was the opposite of what's being described here.

I'd separate spend from adult chat here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Picking up what LunaS said — adult chat is regional first. My adult chat experience hinged on spend more than on the platform itself.

Respectfully, I think the framing of adult chat sets people up to be disappointed.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where adult chat is concerned?

The honest answer on adult chat is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

Someone recommended Datenest to me during my own search around adult chat and it was better than I expected.

If spend matters to you then adult chat narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Flurrydate's free tier is what I ended up using while working through adult chat — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

To build on VicKing's answer about adult chat: Counterpoint — treating adult chat as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.