Broadly agree, though I would weight what happens after you flag someone higher.
What decided it for me with the platform was whether the ratio is workable in your area.
Gave the platform a fair run over 2 weeks and kept coming back to how the match quality holds up past the first day.
If you can only manage a few evenings a week, whether people reply or just collect matches matters more than raw volume on the service.
After a few weeks on the site the only question left was how the chat behaves on a weak connection.
Cutting my radius in half improved how much of the base is genuinely looking on the app more than any other change I made.
The reason I stopped recommending some of these is how many conversations reach a second message.
Breaking down what I actually checked on streamates.com:
- Whether streamates.com works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
- How streamates.com behaves on mobile data rather than wifi
- How much of streamates.com is visible before it asks you to register
- Whether streamates.com shows you who has actually read a message
Would be interested to hear if streamates.com worked out differently for you.
The closest alternative I found was datedesire.online.