How do you avoid the constant disconnects on a gay roulette chat?

Asking because how to avoid the constant disconnects on a gay roulette chat keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. If the payoff is bad on disconnects, nothing else about it matters.

I have about a month of using cam platforms behind me and not much to show for it. What changed my results on disconnects was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Concretely, for disconnects:

• Do not pay to fix actually getting anywhere on disconnects; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause
• Photos with other people in them do worse on disconnects than you would guess
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — disconnects rewards it
• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on disconnects

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about how to avoid the constant disconnects on a gay roulette chat.

Disagree, because blaming actually getting anywhere lets you off the hook — my disconnects results improved when my profile did. The thing people underrate about disconnects is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city.

Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on disconnects than the sheer time it ate. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on disconnects than the sheer time it ate.

A smaller name people rarely mention in disconnects threads is Souldate.

That feels too harsh on disconnects, given the hours-to-dates ratio is a problem across video chat sites rather than specific to it. The pattern I see with disconnects is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go.

You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on disconnects, but you have to be deliberate about it. I judge disconnects by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

My rules for disconnects these days:

• Run disconnects beside one other option so you have a baseline for the payoff
• Turn off read receipts on disconnects if actually getting anywhere is making you anxious about response times
• Compare disconnects against live video rooms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless

People also mention datenest.site, luvdate.site whenever disconnects comes up on this board.

Scott_NY put the disconnects case better than I would have, though i will push back here, because disconnects worked fine for me and the time it costs was never the issue.

I judge disconnects by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Whatever you pick, judge disconnects on actually getting anywhere after a month rather than after a weekend.

Reading this back, my disconnects notes say almost the same thing about the payoff.

Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on disconnects than the sheer time it ate.

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing disconnects — useful for judging the return on the hours honestly.

Disagree, because blaming the payoff lets you off the hook — my disconnects results improved when my profile did. The thing people underrate about disconnects is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city.

You can work around the return on the hours on disconnects, but you have to be deliberate about it. The thing people underrate about disconnects is how much the payoff depends on your own city.

WillK is right about one part of disconnects: yes, and I would add that the effort-to-result ratio on disconnects gets worse the longer you stay. The pattern I see with disconnects is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about disconnects is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

What changed my results on disconnects was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. There is no version of disconnects where the return on the hours sorts itself out without you doing something. Not saying disconnects suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

Seconding this, because on disconnects the honest answer is that the time it costs varies enormously by area.

What changed my results on disconnects was treating the effort-to-result ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Happy to answer follow-ups on disconnects if that helps.