Where is the absolute best place to start an sx chat with a complete stranger?

Someone in another thread mentioned absolute place in passing and it's been bugging me since.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to absolute place.

Where stranger is concerned, these are the absolute place questions I have:

• How visible absolute place keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether messaging on absolute place works without handing over card details
• How quickly absolute place puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Particularly interested in the stranger side of absolute place if anyone has been there.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Turndate boards solved the messaging-paywall part of absolute place for me last year.

Depends what you mean by absolute place, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

The stranger disagreement in this thread says more about absolute place than any single answer.

My own run at absolute place: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

Practical suggestion on absolute place: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

Adding the Flurrydate threads to the pile for absolute place, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Disagree on one point: absolute place is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

To build on JackT's answer about absolute place: Watch for the pattern where absolute place is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

Disagree with ChloeW99 slightly here on absolute place. Both things can be true about absolute place: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

Half the disagreement in this thread about absolute place is people using the same words for different goals.

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

Which parts of absolute place have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

Since we're comparing options around absolute place, Rendate came up when I was looking at the same thing.

The stranger variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of absolute place.

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

Set a deadline when you try absolute place, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on absolute place that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Worth splitting absolute place into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Hard disagree on the stranger point. That has not been my experience of absolute place at all.

Luvdate.site comes up a lot when absolute place gets discussed elsewhere.