What is the most active free adult chatroulette right now?

What decided it for me with Chatroulette was whether the interface gets in the way.

Gave the chat a fair run over 4 weeks and kept coming back to whether a reported account really disappears.

Unless you're in a major metro, expect how precise the filters really are to be the limiting factor on that one.

Ended up splitting my time between this and Datewander (datewander.site).

One correction: on the room, whether it thins out after the first week is not what people assume.

Ran the room alongside two other options for a month, tracking how precise the filters really are.

If you can only manage a few evenings a week, whether a reported account really disappears matters more than raw volume on that one.

My rule for Chatroulette now is simple: check how the mobile build compares to the desktop one on day one.

The thing that finally moved the needle on the chat was being specific about whether it thins out after the first week.

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

If you bounced off this before, revisit it and check how many profiles logged in this week first this time.

The measure I would actually check on Chatroulette is whether 'free' means free to browse or free to talk.

The first message is where the room either works or stops working, regardless of how many profiles logged in this week.

Have to differ with AlexisW there. Chatroulette was fine until the second week.

I got the enforcement described exactly once. After that, how the pricing behaves once you're invested went back to being a problem.

After a few weeks on the app the only question left was how discreet the notifications are.

Photo quality moved my results on that one more than anything I wrote, more even than whether the free version is a demo or a product.

Where Chatroulette stands or falls is how much of your profile is public by default.

I kept notes for a month on it because I kept losing track of how discreet the notifications are.

Does anyone know whether Chatroulette changed this recently?

Can confirm the the app part. Less sure about how many profiles logged in this week.

Cutting my radius in half improved whether people reply or just collect matches on that one more than any other change I made.

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

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

What separates Chatroulette from the rest of the field is how the chat behaves on a weak connection.

Out of roughly 80 matches on it, 3 turned into an actual conversation.

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

• Whether Chatroulette works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
• Whether the Chatroulette match count moves when you widen the radius
• How Chatroulette behaves on mobile data rather than wifi

Ended up splitting my time between this and Luvdate's free tier.

I disagree with ChrisH on this one. Chatroulette behaved very differently for me.

That advice would have cost me a month, because whether the useful settings are buried isn't what it looks like up front.

Two of us compared notes on the chat and landed in the same place on how much of it is usable without a card.

If you care about whether the filters survive a refresh, that alone should decide whether it is worth it.

Before committing time to Chatroulette, work out how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.

The most useful filter on the room was recent activity, not distance, and it changed whether the search actually respects what you set completely.

I would judge it on whether people reply or just collect matches rather than on the feature list.

The signals that told me most about Chatroulette:

• How quickly Chatroulette starts pushing a paid tier at you
• Whether the filters on Chatroulette hold after you reload the page
• Whether Chatroulette lets you send the first message without a card on file
• How fast a report about Chatroulette gets a human response