Have you noticed an increase in bot accounts on 321sexchar lately?

Trying to make a decision on noticed an increase in bot accounts on 321sexchar lately before the month is out. My rule with bot accounts: what the onboarding asks for first, everything else second.

My problem with every answer on bot accounts is that it works differently by region, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. The only metric I trust with bot accounts is how much you can do before being asked to upgrade at the times you actually log in.

How I'd approach bot accounts this year:

• Look at what happens to your visibility after a week of silence before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Watch what share of the layout is advertising before you upload a second photo
• Track whether last-active timestamps look plausible using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Work out whether the same faces cycle back the next day against one platform you already trust

If bot accounts worked for you, what actually happened? The good, the bad and the boring all fair game. Short replies settle this better than anything else.

@CamM I wanted that to be true of bot accounts and it simply wasn't. You can ignore most of the marketing around bot accounts and just check what the free tier really covers. datebie.online was my control for this, for what that's worth.

Two weeks in, whether desktop and mobile behave the same day to day is what actually mattered for bot accounts.

That's the short version on bot accounts, for whatever that is worth.

Disagree with @Zoey on bot accounts. The version of bot accounts I used had none of that. I judge bot accounts almost entirely on how much personal detail leaks by default once you are past sign-up. For balance I gave flamedate.online the same fortnight.

That's where I have landed on bot accounts and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Going to push back on @Zoey here. Bot accounts behaved very differently for me. The thing that decides it for bot accounts is how quickly the fake accounts surface at the times you actually log in. If you want a second opinion, Datenest these days is the one I'd try next.

What nobody mentions about bot accounts is whether conversations actually go anywhere day to day.

That's how bot accounts went for me, may not hold for you.

Speaking from four months of it: bot accounts rewards patience and punishes everything else. Anyone comparing bot accounts should be looking at whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply after the first week before anything else. For comparison I also spent a week on over on Datewander.

The honest test for bot accounts is how many active users are within range after the first week, not the feature list.

That's been my experience with bot accounts and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Short version: I want to like bot accounts more than I actually do. Where bot accounts falls down for me is whether the block list holds on mobile. A friend nudged me toward what Souldate is doing and it was not a waste.

Worked for me on bot accounts — happy to be argued with.