Does anyone still use traditional adultphone chat lines, or is it all web-based now?

Signed up specifically to ask about anyone still use traditional adultphone chat lines, or is it all web-based now. Hoping for something on adultphone more useful than a top-ten list. Everything I have read about adultphone skips straight past the hours-to-dates ratio.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about what is on offer. I judge adultphone by one thing now: whether the time it costs improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

What would actually help me judge adultphone:

• Treat your first adultphone profile as a draft, because the hours-to-dates ratio punishes lazy ones
• Check what adultphone does about the return on the hours before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give adultphone a fortnight of daily use before calling the return on the hours a dealbreaker

I will report back on anyone still use traditional adultphone chat lines, or is it all web-based now once I have tried whatever gets recommended.

Agreed, although with adultphone I would frame actually getting anywhere as a symptom rather than the cause. The pattern I see with adultphone is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go. Most of the noise about adultphone comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window.

Most of the noise about adultphone comes from people measuring the time it costs over far too short a window. The pattern I see with adultphone is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Either way, the time it costs is the thing I would test first on adultphone.

Practical bits, if you are trying adultphone:

• Do not move off adultphone into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
• Compare adultphone against what is on offer on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Check what adultphone does about the hours-to-dates ratio before you upload anything you would not want indexed

If you want a second data point on adultphone, Datebound is the one I run alongside it.

@Dave_SoCal makes a fair point about adultphone, but that has not been my experience of adultphone, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

I keep two accounts running to compare the time it costs across platforms in this space, and adultphone sits mid-table. Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on adultphone than the sheer time it ate.

The short version for adultphone:

• Photos with other people in them do worse on adultphone than you would guess
• Test the return on the hours on adultphone deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Do not pay to fix actually getting anywhere on adultphone; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; adultphone activity is nothing like flat

I will push back here, because adultphone worked fine for me and the return on the hours was never the issue. If the time it costs is your main worry with adultphone, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with adultphone, test it in the first week rather than the first month. That is my read on adultphone, and others here clearly disagree.

The other one I would try before giving up on adultphone is Datedesire.

Building on what Brent Olson said about adultphone, that has not been my experience of adultphone, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on adultphone scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on adultphone, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I judge adultphone by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Nobody warns you that the time it costs on adultphone scales with how many people are online at your hours. For most people in this thread, the adultphone experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

That tracks with my adultphone run, which was fine until the payoff became the whole experience. Most of the noise about adultphone comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window.

The thing people underrate about adultphone is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city. The thing people underrate about adultphone is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city. If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with adultphone, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Anyone comparing adultphone on the return on the hours should probably add Datewander to the list.

Taylor_V and I've clearly used adultphone differently, because not my read at all: for people replying above, adultphone was the only thing that produced anything.

Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on adultphone scales with how many people are online at your hours. There is no version of adultphone where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

Picking up Felix Grant's point about the time it costs, different experience on adultphone, where the effort-to-result ratio turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on adultphone than the sheer time it ate. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on adultphone scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on adultphone scales with how many people are online at your hours. For regulars here, the adultphone experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on adultphone than the sheer time it ate. Take that as one data point on adultphone rather than a recommendation.

For contrast with adultphone I would look at Ezhookups; the free tier there behaves differently.