What happened to the premium section of the x livesex network?

Wanted to get some real answers on happened to the premium section of the x livesex network. The only metric I trust with premium section is what the escalation path looks like.

Where I get stuck with premium section is that the last honest write-up is two years old. You can ignore most of the marketing around premium section and just check how active it is outside big cities at the times you actually log in.

My shortlist when weighing premium section, in order:

• Time whether replies are open before you finish the profile at the hour you would actually be using it
• Look at how the search behaves outside the default radius and write the answer down
• Verify how many profiles carry more than two photos at the hour you would actually be using it

Anyone who tracked premium section over a longer stretch, what did the first week look like? Praise and complaints all land the same with me. Short replies help far more than opinions.

For what it is worth: premium section has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. What nobody mentions about premium section is how aggressive the upsell gets after the first week. Ended up sticking with datelink.online for the messaging alone.

How I'd approach premium section, in order:

• Check how the web version differs from the app on the first evening, not the first month
• Check how the search behaves outside the default radius on the first evening, not the first month

If you're evaluating premium section, start with what the bot ratio feels like day to day on mobile — everything else follows.

That's where I have landed on premium section, for whatever that is worth.

@Noah Williams I had the opposite result with premium section, so take both our takes with salt. For premium section, whether notifications are useful or noise outside the big cities is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. ezhookups.online was my control for this, for what that's worth.

That's how premium section went for me, may not hold for you.

Not the answer anyone wants: premium section depends almost entirely on your city. The thing that decides it for premium section is how much you can do before being asked to upgrade after the first week. datescout.site landed in much the same place.

The honest test for premium section is what the onboarding asks for on mobile, not the feature list.

That's the honest picture of premium section; ask if you want the detail.

My read: I want to like premium section more than I actually do. Where premium section falls down for me is what you lose by never paying in practice. The closest thing I found to an honest free tier was Datenest right now.

Two weeks in, how thin it gets in smaller towns once you are past sign-up is what actually mattered for premium section.

That's the honest picture of premium section, may not hold for you.

My read: premium section is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. My rule with premium section: what the bot ratio feels like day to day on mobile first, everything else second.

The checks that saved me time on premium section this year:

• Watch whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out in your own city rather than the default radius
• Sanity-check how quickly a scripted account gives itself away with the age filter set narrow
• Watch how the web version differs from the app on the first evening, not the first month
• Check what the filters do after a page refresh with the age filter set narrow

That's how premium section went for me; ask if you want the detail.

@Natalie Diaz makes a good point, though I'd qualify it — premium section shifted a lot last year. I judge premium section almost entirely on how much you can do before being asked to upgrade day to day. Worth a look at Souldate's free tier if you want a second data point.

Anyone comparing premium section should be looking at whether notifications are useful or noise after the first week before anything else.

Worked for me on premium section — happy to be argued with.

Blunt answer: premium section has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. The honest test for premium section is how obvious the scripted replies are at the times you actually log in, not the feature list. Datebie is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

That's the short version on premium section, may not hold for you.