Spent about two months comparing options around Dirtyroulette before settling on anything.
The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether the interface gets in the way.
Turning off read receipts made that one far less stressful, though it did nothing for how precise the filters really are.
Does anyone know whether Dirtyroulette changed this recently?
Brooke__29 is right about this and I would go a step further on Dirtyroulette.
I would judge Dirtyroulette on how quickly you can narrow a list down rather than on the feature list.
I gave Dirtyroulette about 4 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching how usable it is one-handed on a phone.
If you are only browsing, the room is fine. The moment how usable it is one-handed on a phone matters, it changes.
Seconding what Brooke__29 said, with one caveat about Dirtyroulette.
My first week on Dirtyroulette looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how much control you get over who sees you.
If you can only manage a few evenings a week, whether the community polices itself matters more than raw volume on the app.
Before committing time to that one, work out whether the ratio is workable in your area.
The signals that told me most about Dirtyroulette:
If you bounced off this before, revisit that one and check whether the useful settings are buried first this time.
Where the room stands or falls is how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.
The short checklist I use before trusting anything like Dirtyroulette:
That is my read on Dirtyroulette anyway, others will have had different luck.
I keep how Souldate handles it open alongside it, mostly out of habit now.
The thing nobody mentions about Dirtyroulette is how discreet the notifications are.
Photo quality moved my results on the chat more than anything I wrote, more even than how precise the filters really are.
If you only test one thing on Dirtyroulette, make it how much of your profile is public by default.
I tested it across two cities and the difference came down to how much data leaves the app.
What I would look at, in order, for Dirtyroulette:
If this one does not work out, Turndate if you want a smaller pool covers similar ground.
The most useful filter on that one was recent activity, not distance, and it changed how much control you get over who sees you completely.
What separates the chat from the rest of the field is how quickly you can narrow a list down.
Out of roughly 60 matches on that one, 7 turned into an actual conversation.
Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with Dirtyroulette.
The measure I would actually check on Dirtyroulette is how precise the filters really are.
Two of us compared notes on the room and landed in the same place on how precise the filters really are.
The closest alternative I found was datedesire.online.
About 40 profiles into it, the pattern around what the platform can see that you cannot became obvious.
Assuming you are not paying, whether the good profiles are already taken is where the platform gets tight.
After a few weeks on the chat the only question left was whether the search actually respects what you set.
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