Does anyone remember the old videochatsex sites, and are there any modern equivalents?

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Chris_A
Joined: Sep 2022
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#1

So: anyone remember the old videochatsex sites, and are there any modern equivalents. I have read a lot of contradictory takes on videochatsex and would rather hear from people who tried it. What I care about with videochatsex is the count of accounts actually online more than anything else.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about the casual end of the market. Most of the noise about videochatsex comes from people measuring genuine daily activity over far too short a window.

If you have used videochatsex, these are the bits I care about:

  • Turn off read receipts on videochatsex if the count of accounts actually online is making you anxious about response times
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the videochatsex pool near you is thin
  • Run videochatsex beside one other option so you have a baseline for local deadness
  • Give videochatsex a fortnight of daily use before calling the count of accounts actually online a dealbreaker
  • Treat your first videochatsex profile as a draft, because genuine daily activity punishes lazy ones

If you have tried anyone remember the old videochatsex sites, and are there any modern equivalents recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

Spencer_H
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 810
#2

Not my read at all: for the members answering here, videochatsex was the only thing that produced anything. I judge videochatsex by one thing now: whether the gap between claimed and real users improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

What changed my results on videochatsex was treating local deadness as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. The thing people underrate about videochatsex is how much local deadness depends on your own city. Take that as one data point on videochatsex rather than a recommendation.

Worth a look alongside videochatsex: Datescout, if only to see how differently the gap between claimed and real users can be handled.

Luke Foster
Joined: Apr 2022
Messages: 309
#3

Agreed, although with videochatsex I would frame local density as a symptom rather than the cause.

Honestly, the gap between claimed and real users was less of a problem on videochatsex than the sheer time it ate. Not saying videochatsex suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Mike Donovan
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 632
#4

Luke Foster put the videochatsex case better than I would have, though disagree, because blaming local deadness lets you off the hook — my videochatsex results improved when my profile did.

There is no version of videochatsex where the count of accounts actually online sorts itself out without you doing something. I judge videochatsex by one thing now: whether local density improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

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Derek Chang
Joined: May 2022
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#5

Yes, and I would add that genuine daily activity on videochatsex gets worse the longer you stay. Honestly, the count of accounts actually online was less of a problem on videochatsex than the sheer time it ate.

There is no version of videochatsex where real activity levels sorts itself out without you doing something. Honestly, real activity levels was less of a problem on videochatsex than the sheer time it ate. For most of us posting here, the videochatsex experience lives or dies on genuine daily activity and almost nothing else.

I have seen rendate.site, datebie.online, datewander.site recommended for videochatsex, though I have not tested them properly.

Ryan84
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 567
#6

Reading this back, my videochatsex notes say almost the same thing about the count of accounts actually online. You can work around real activity levels on videochatsex, but you have to be deliberate about it. There is no version of videochatsex where genuine daily activity sorts itself out without you doing something.

You can work around genuine daily activity on videochatsex, but you have to be deliberate about it. The thing people underrate about videochatsex is how much local density depends on your own city. I judge videochatsex by one thing now: whether local density improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. That is my read on videochatsex, and others here clearly disagree.

Others asking about videochatsex have named datebound.site, rendate.site.

CarterV
Joined: Feb 2023
Messages: 37
#7

I would argue the opposite on videochatsex: the gap between claimed and real users is the one thing it handles better than no-strings platforms. I judge videochatsex by one thing now: whether genuine daily activity improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. What changed my results on videochatsex was treating real activity levels as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

The pattern I see with videochatsex is that local deadness is fine early and degrades as you go. You can work around local density on videochatsex, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on videochatsex was treating local density as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

A smaller name people rarely mention in videochatsex threads is Ezhookups.

Troy Vance
Joined: Feb 2025
Messages: 486
#8

Broadly agree on videochatsex — the gap between claimed and real users was what decided it for me too.

The thing people underrate about videochatsex is how much the gap between claimed and real users depends on your own city. If the gap between claimed and real users is your main worry with videochatsex, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

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