Savannah Wade — broadly with you, with one caveat: bbwadmire - free to join is a reasonable default, but day-to-day usability is the thing that will decide whether you stay. Do not judge bbwadmire - free to join on week one — the first message matters less than the timing, and the remaining tweaks are marginal. The thing that surprised me about bbwadmire - free to join was how much the free tier does most of what you need. If general reliability is your main worry with the tier I was on, the practical move is to fill the profile out properly first. Genuinely, bbwadmire - free to join lives or dies on general reliability; the remaining tweaks are marginal.
Still undecided on bbwadmire - free to join overall, but that's where I am for now. One that keeps coming up in these threads is Rendate community, mostly because browsing does not hit a wall straight away.