Are the performers in the bongacam mature section mostly independent or studio models?

Curious where people land on the performers in the bongacam mature section mostly independent or studio models, because I keep getting told two opposite things. If the return on the hours is bad on bongacam, nothing else about it matters.

I have tried a few options across video chat sites already and none of them stuck. What changed my results on bongacam was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

What would actually help me judge bongacam:

• Compare bongacam against the cam side of things on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Run bongacam beside one other option so you have a baseline for the return on the hours
• Do not move off bongacam into private messaging until the return on the hours looks handled

If you have tried the performers in the bongacam mature section mostly independent or studio models recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

That has not been my experience of bongacam, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. For people dating in retirement, the bongacam experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else.

For later-life daters, the bongacam experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about bongacam is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city.

Practical bits, if you are trying bongacam:

• Screenshot anything odd on bongacam before you report it — the payoff claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — bongacam rewards it
• Block early and report often on bongacam — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Photos with other people in them do worse on bongacam than you would guess
• Test the time it costs on bongacam deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves

I would argue the opposite on bongacam: the payoff is the one thing it handles better than cam platforms. For members over fifty, the bongacam experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else.

I judge bongacam by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Take that as one data point on bongacam rather than a recommendation.

Somebody in another bongacam thread pointed me at Flurrydate and it held up better than expected on the payoff.

Kevin Nash is right about one part of bongacam: disagree, because blaming actually getting anywhere lets you off the hook — my bongacam results improved when my profile did. There is no version of bongacam where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

You can work around the payoff on bongacam, but you have to be deliberate about it. There is no version of bongacam where the return on the hours sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that the time it costs on bongacam scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Where I differ from XanderM on bongacam: seconding this, because on bongacam the honest answer is that the effort-to-result ratio varies enormously by area.

There is no version of bongacam where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something.

I would argue the opposite on bongacam: actually getting anywhere is the one thing it handles better than video chat sites. I judge bongacam by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with bongacam, test it in the first week rather than the first month. You can work around actually getting anywhere on bongacam, but you have to be deliberate about it.

One smaller option worth comparing on the time it costs is Flurrydate — different pool, same free messaging as bongacam.

I would argue the opposite on bongacam: the return on the hours is the one thing it handles better than the cam side of things. What changed my results on bongacam was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on bongacam than the sheer time it ate. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on bongacam scales with how many people are online at your hours. Whatever you pick, judge bongacam on the hours-to-dates ratio after a month rather than after a weekend.

How I would approach bongacam from scratch:

• Do not move off bongacam into private messaging until the time it costs looks handled
• Compare bongacam against streaming chat platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what bongacam does about the effort-to-result ratio before you upload anything you would not want indexed

RebeccaT put the bongacam case better than I would have, though i would argue the opposite on bongacam: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than cam platforms.

There is no version of bongacam where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. You can work around the return on the hours on bongacam, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If you do try bongacam, do this:

• Message within a day of matching — on bongacam that window closes fast
• Give bongacam a fortnight of daily use before calling the hours-to-dates ratio a dealbreaker
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the bongacam pool near you is thin
• Check what bongacam does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Do not move off bongacam into private messaging until the payoff looks handled