Is nude chatroulette still a thing, or has it been completely banned?

Agree with Ethan Parker, though Chatroulette was a bit worse in my case.

Where Chatroulette stands or falls is whether the filters survive a refresh.

I logged into it at different times of day to get a read on whether the sorting can be trusted.

That is my read on Chatroulette anyway, others will have had different luck.

What Ethan Parker described matches my experience of Chatroulette almost exactly.

I tested the room across two cities and the difference came down to how aggressively it pushes credits at you.

Unless you are in a major metro, expect how quickly you can narrow a list down to be the limiting factor on the room.

Most comparisons of Chatroulette skip how long a bad account stays up, which is the part that matters.

Does anyone know whether Chatroulette changed this recently?

Assuming you are not paying, whether the sorting can be trusted is where the chat gets tight.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is what the verification step actually proves.

The thing that finally moved the needle on the chat was being specific about whether bans stick or get walked back.

My rule for it now is simple: check how much is automated versus reviewed on day one.

Ended up splitting my time between this and the Flurrydate community threads.

If you only test one thing on Chatroulette, make it how long a bad account stays up.

Widening the radius on the chat added volume and quietly worsened whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.

What I would look at, in order, for Chatroulette:

• How fast a report about Chatroulette gets a human response
• How many Chatroulette conversations get past a second reply
• Whether Chatroulette lets you send the first message without a card on file
• Whether the Chatroulette match count moves when you widen the radius

If this one does not work out, Datedesire covers similar ground.

CodyL is right about this and I would go a step further on Chatroulette.

Reply rate on the room roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though whether the useful settings are buried never budged.

Before committing time to the app, work out how the chat behaves on a weak connection.

My first week on Chatroulette looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how the chat behaves on a weak connection.

Souldate's free tier came up when I asked the same question last year.

AlexisW covered most of it. The bit I would add on Chatroulette is below.

What separates Chatroulette from the rest of the field is whether the ratio is workable in your area.

Your mileage on Chatroulette will vary by city more than by anything else.

Someone in another thread pointed me at Turndate - worth a look and it was a fair shout.

Seconding what Jessy_Park said, with one caveat about Chatroulette.

Two of us compared notes on it and landed in the same place on whether the interface gets in the way.

I had a better run on Datebie, for whatever that is worth.