Where is the chatrandom gay chat?

Started by TerrenceJ 10 replies Board: Adult & Casual Chat
TerrenceJ profile photo
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Posts: 934
#1

I keep running into the same wall with gay chat and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

Half the discussion around gay chat is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

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

Concretely, for gay chat, these are my criteria:

  • Whether gay chat is honest about chatrandom up front
  • Whether the matching in gay chat does anything beyond distance
  • How much chatrandom actually costs you when using gay chat
  • Whether anyone has tested chatrandom properly on gay chat
  • Whether chatrandom makes any material difference to gay chat

Any first-hand experience with gay chat would help more than another list.

GracefulT profile photo
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#2

I keep Datingfly's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with gay chat.

PhilipC profile photo
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#3

The chatrandom disagreement in this thread says more about gay chat than any single answer.

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

CharlotteH profile photo
Joined 2021
Posts: 460
#4

Since we're comparing options around gay chat, Flurrydate.online came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Strongly agree, and I would add that gay chat looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

SarahK profile photo
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#5

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

RandallH profile photo
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Posts: 118
#6

To build on CharlotteH's answer about gay chat: Good thread — most discussion of gay chat online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

RyanO profile photo
Joined 2018
Posts: 133
#7

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datelink itself solved the messaging-paywall part of gay chat for me last year.

This tracks. Once chatrandom enters the picture, gay chat stops being a simple comparison.

OliviaG profile photo
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#8

CharlotteH has a point about gay chat. Agree with the framing here, because gay chat really does come down to who is active near you.

Ava Mitchell profile photo
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#9

How long did you give gay chat before deciding it was not working for you?

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#10

Yes — and the reason gay chat feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

My rule for gay chat is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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#11

Someone recommended the Datedesire threads to me during my own search around gay chat and it was better than I expected.

The chatrandom angle you raise is the part most threads on gay chat skip entirely.

Datebound.site comes up a lot when gay chat gets discussed elsewhere.

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