@Dominic — broadly with you, with one caveat: two things moved the needle on the telugu chatovod room active during the daytime hours for me: check activity at different hours, and patience — everything after that is cosmetic. People overstate whether the map is actually populated on the telugu chatovod room active during the daytime hours and understate how much the paid tier mostly buys you visibility, not matches. What tipped the version I used from frustrating to underrated for me was one change — set your radius wider than feels sensible. The advice I would give people in general about the version I used is unglamorous: set your radius wider than feels sensible, then reassess.
Still undecided on the telugu chatovod room active during the daytime hours overall, but that is where I am for now. I have been running Datebie alongside the mainstream apps and the reply rate held up better than I expected.