Is stipchat a typo or a new site?

Abigail58 covered most of it. The bit I would add on stipchat is below.

Most comparisons of stipchat skip whether the ratio is workable in your area, which is the part that matters.

Gave stipchat a fair run over 3 weeks and kept coming back to how quickly you can narrow a list down.

Unless you are in a major metro, expect what the free ceiling looks like in practice to be the limiting factor on that one.

My rule for stipchat now is simple: check how usable it's one-handed on a phone on day one.

Reply rate on the room roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though how much of it's usable without a card never budged.

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

I had a better run on the Datedesire boards, for whatever that is worth.

I kept notes for a month on that one because I kept losing track of whether the filters survive a refresh.

If you care about how the mobile build compares to the desktop one, that alone should decide whether the app is worth it.

That is roughly where I landed on stipchat after a fair amount of trial and error.

The closest alternative I found was what Datenest does with filters.

Assuming you are not paying, whether the algorithm is doing anything useful is where the app gets tight.

The gap between good and bad platforms here is whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.

The thing that finally moved the needle on the platform was being specific about whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.

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

For a second opinion I also cross-checked Souldate (souldate.site).

Agree with CaseyNYC, though stipchat was a bit worse in my case.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether a phone number is genuinely required.

Most of my useful conversations on the room started midweek, which says more about how the chat behaves on a weak connection than about timing.

The signals that told me most about stipchat:

• Whether the stipchat photos survive a reverse image search
• How stipchat behaves on mobile data rather than wifi
• How many stipchat profiles show a recent login rather than a join date

Take that as one data point on stipchat rather than a verdict.

Rewriting the opening line did more for that one than a month of tweaking whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.

After a few weeks on the room the only question left was what you lose by never upgrading.

Two of us compared notes on that one and landed in the same place on how much is automated versus reviewed.

I keep how Datewander handles it open alongside it, mostly out of habit now.

Different result here, and how the chat behaves on a weak connection is why.

The measure I would actually check on that one is how the pricing behaves once you're invested.

Ran it alongside two other options for a month, tracking what happens to your data after you delete.

The closest alternative I found was Datebie.