Is naughty chat roulette still popular for quick flashes?

Posting this after longer than I would like to admit on naughty chat roulette — here is roughly where I landed.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the block function ignores about half of what you set, especially once narrowing the options comes into it.

For anyone who has used genuinely free apps recently:

• Does that match what others see when narrowing the options is the main worry?
• Is anyone getting different results for most people?
• Has anyone tested this recently for most people?
• Is that worth the time investment in the region you set your filters to?

If anyone has tested naughty chat roulette recently I'd rather hear that than another roundup.

On genuinely free apps, deleting everything and starting over roughly doubled the reply rate.

Is that still true with genuinely free apps?

On balance, the quality of your first message is a better predictor of how many replies you get in a week than the price of the subscription, but that was months ago and things move where narrowing the options is concerned.

My sticking point is that the block function gives you no idea when an account was last opened, especially once narrowing the options comes into it.

Which tier you are on gets the credit but the response you give to a low-effort opener does the work for people in the middle of the pack.

Been running Flurrydate in parallel — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

The other one people keep naming here is Flamedate.

Has anyone compared the two directly for people in the middle of the pack?

Something worth knowing: for most people, the size of the pool within ten miles tends to decide whether anything reaches a first meeting.

Practical notes on narrowing the options:

• Turn the notifications off, because it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
• Read the profile before you send anything if narrowing the options is your main concern.
• Say what you want in the first two lines — the platforms will not do it for you.

Happy to be argued with when it comes to naughty chat roulette.

Has anyone compared the two directly in the region you set your filters to?

That tracks — @OliviaOnline, the remark about filters is exactly right.

On genuinely free apps, dropping the filters turned it from a chore into something workable for people in the middle of the pack.

Broadly, how recently a profile was active beats which platform you picked for people in the middle of the pack.

Has anyone found the opposite for most people?