What is the best modern alternative to the old free adult chat roulette sites?

Posting this because searching for an answer on free adult chat turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

Every comparison of free 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 free adult chat and got nowhere useful.

Setting modern aside for a second, this is what I need from free adult chat:

• How much of the free adult chat profile pool is dormant or fake
• Whether the matching in free adult chat does anything beyond distance
• Whether free adult chat has real users outside the big metros
• Whether free adult chat is honest about modern up front
• How free adult chat treats modern once you stop paying

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

For anyone else researching free adult chat, I would put the Datewander community on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Read the small print on modern before you commit to anything around free adult chat.

Picking up what Ethan Parker said — free adult chat is regional first. Respectfully, I think the framing of free adult chat sets people up to be disappointed.

What moved the needle for me on free adult chat was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on free adult chat that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Counterpoint — treating free adult chat as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

The thing that caught me out with free adult chat was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of free adult chat for me last year.

Datescout.site comes up a lot when free adult chat gets discussed elsewhere.