Is strep chat a new platform?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: is strep chat a new platform.

Nothing I can find on strep chat addresses platform in any depth.

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

My checklist for strep chat, in rough order of importance:

• How quickly strep chat puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether strep chat has real users outside the big metros
• How strep chat handles platform compared with the bigger names
• How much platform actually costs you when using strep chat

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about strep chat.

Adding the Datingfly forums to the pile for strep chat, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Test platform first, because it tells you more about strep chat than any feature comparison will.

I keep the Flurrydate free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with strep chat.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with strep chat here is genuinely useful.

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