@WesleyC69 — broadly with you, with one caveat: there is a version of dirtyroulette better than Chatroulette that works well for the bulk of users, and it starts with deciding to check activity at different hours. By and large the complaints about the setup here are really complaints about general reliability across the whole category. The reason dirtyroulette better than Chatroulette frustrates most people asking this is that the defaults are tuned for somebody else entirely. Where I landed on that particular one: underrated, provided you set your radius wider than feels sensible. If you want a low-commitment test, Datenest lets you browse before it asks for anything.
- Low effort, high signal: test it for a week before committing — it costs nothing
- Low effort, high signal: check activity at different hours for at least a week
- If nothing else: turn off read receipts and see what changes for at least a week