Agree with Lauren94, though gay chat random was a bit worse in my case.
My rule for the app now is simple: check what a search of your username turns up on day one.
Two of us compared notes on it and landed in the same place on whether the sorting can be trusted.
If your area is thin, that one will not fix that, whatever how quickly you can narrow a list down looks like.
The measure I would actually check on gay chat random is whether the search actually respects what you set.
Treat urgency as a red flag. Nothing about how much of the traffic is automated on the app needs to happen tonight.
Worth comparing against DatingFly's free tier before you commit to anything.