What are the best, most welcoming communities for text-based adult rp chat?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: best, most welcoming communities for text-based adult rp chat.

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

I've already worked through the first page of results on welcoming communities, which is why I'm asking here.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring welcoming communities:

• How welcoming communities handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• How the adult experience on welcoming communities compares month to month
• How visible welcoming communities keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether welcoming communities has real users outside the big metros
• Whether the free tier on welcoming communities is genuinely usable or just a demo

Any first-hand experience with welcoming communities would help more than another list.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on welcoming communities are more use than any ranked list.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate solved the messaging-paywall part of welcoming communities for me last year.

Adding the Datebie community to the pile for welcoming communities, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

The thing that caught me out with welcoming communities was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Picking up what MiaC_online said — welcoming communities is regional first. For welcoming communities, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

Took me about six weeks on welcoming communities before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Since we're comparing options around welcoming communities, Datescout's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For anyone else researching welcoming communities, I would put the Flamedate forums on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

The adult disagreement in this thread says more about welcoming communities than any single answer.

Are you asking about welcoming communities for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Have you looked at the adult side of welcoming communities yet, or still on the basics?

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

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about welcoming communities.

Datebound.online comes up a lot when welcoming communities gets discussed elsewhere.