Is dirty chatroulette still popular?

Third time I've tried to get a straight answer on dirty chatroulette still popular. If you're evaluating dirty chatroulette, start with whether it is busy at the times you are in practice — everything else follows.

What makes dirty chatroulette hard to pin down is that the free and paid experiences barely overlap, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. Anyone comparing dirty chatroulette should be looking at how the pricing is structured in practice outside the big cities before anything else.

My shortlist when weighing dirty chatroulette this year:

• Confirm whether replies are open before you finish the profile in your own city rather than the default radius
• Confirm what happens to your visibility after a week of silence using a fresh account rather than an old one
• Note how the feed changes when you narrow the age range against one platform you already trust

Anyone with recent time on dirty chatroulette, what did the review sites get wrong? Highlights and disappointments all fine here. Concrete examples are what I came here for.

Not sure @Trevor Wright and I are talking about the same dirty chatroulette at all. What nobody mentions about dirty chatroulette is what the reply rate looks like once you are past sign-up. The closest thing I found to an honest free tier was Datewander (datewander.site).

My shortlist when weighing dirty chatroulette:

• Sanity-check how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands in your own city rather than the default radius
• Work out how the web version differs from the app before you commit any time to it
• Count whether the same faces cycle back the next day on mobile data, not office wifi

Two weeks in, whether messaging is open or gated behind credits is what actually mattered for dirty chatroulette.

That's the short version on dirty chatroulette, may not hold for you.

For what it is worth: dirty chatroulette rewards patience and punishes everything else. You can ignore most of the marketing around dirty chatroulette and just check what costs money once you are past sign-up after the first week. Tried luvdate.site alongside it and saw no real gap.

That's my read on dirty chatroulette, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Disagree with @Naomi Rogers on dirty chatroulette. The version of dirty chatroulette I used had none of that. For dirty chatroulette, how the discovery feed is ordered at the times you actually log in is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. the souldate.site crowd is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

Where I'd start with dirty chatroulette after a few false starts:

• Compare how many profiles carry more than two photos and write the answer down
• Count whether last-active timestamps look plausible before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Look at how many profiles carry more than two photos before you commit any time to it
• Test whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out on the first evening, not the first month

That's the honest picture of dirty chatroulette, though clearly it varies by region.

Short version: there is a version of dirty chatroulette that works, and it is not the default one. The honest test for dirty chatroulette is where the paywall actually sits, not the feature list. datebie.online was my control for this, for what that's worth.

The only metric I trust with dirty chatroulette is what the reply rate looks like on mobile.

That's what six weeks of dirty chatroulette taught me, anyway.

Half agree with @Spencer. Dirty chatroulette is fine; the experience around dirty chatroulette isn't. My rule with dirty chatroulette: how the interface holds up on mobile first, everything else second. what Datenest is doing was the only one that did not gate replies.

That's where I've landed on dirty chatroulette, may not hold for you.