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TomC
Joined: Oct 2022
Messages: 616
#1

So: the best alternatives to camzey gay for quick hookups. I have read a lot of contradictory takes on alternatives and would rather hear from people who tried it. For queer daters, the hours-to-dates ratio is the whole question with alternatives.

I have about a month of using streaming chat platforms behind me and not much to show for it. The thing people underrate about alternatives is how much the time it costs depends on your own city.

The open questions I have on alternatives:

  • Compare alternatives against streaming chat platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Run alternatives beside one other option so you have a baseline for the effort-to-result ratio
  • Do not move off alternatives into private messaging until the hours-to-dates ratio looks handled

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about the best alternatives to camzey gay for quick hookups.

GregP
Joined: Dec 2022
Messages: 639
#2

That feels too harsh on alternatives, given the payoff is a problem across video chat sites rather than specific to it. For people outside the straight default, the alternatives experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else.

What changed my results on alternatives was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Most of the noise about alternatives comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window.

NathanW
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 358
#3

Same experience on alternatives: I gave it six weeks before the return on the hours got tiresome.

Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on alternatives than the sheer time it ate.

My alternatives baseline these days is DatingFly, mostly because the payoff is measurable there.

NickT
Joined: Jul 2021
Messages: 54
#4

That feels too harsh on alternatives, given the time it costs is a problem across cam platforms rather than specific to it. What changed my results on alternatives was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on alternatives scales with how many people are online at your hours. Whatever you pick, judge alternatives on the return on the hours after a month rather than after a weekend.

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Garrett_K
Joined: Apr 2023
Messages: 544
#5

Disagree, because blaming the return on the hours lets you off the hook — my alternatives results improved when my profile did. I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across streaming chat platforms, and alternatives sits mid-table.

You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on alternatives, but you have to be deliberate about it. Not saying alternatives suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

RobbieQ
Joined: Apr 2022
Messages: 340
#6

Different experience on alternatives, where the time it costs turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I judge alternatives by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

I judge alternatives by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on alternatives scales with how many people are online at your hours.

For contrast with alternatives I would look at Flurrydate; the free tier there behaves differently.

Jenny_K
Joined: Jul 2021
Messages: 457
#7

RobbieQ and I have clearly used alternatives differently, because i would argue the opposite on alternatives: the payoff is the one thing it handles better than live video rooms.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across the cam side of things, and alternatives sits mid-table. The thing people underrate about alternatives is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city.

Names that come up repeatedly in alternatives threads: rendate.site, datebie.online, datewander.site.

Cassie_W
Joined: Nov 2020
Messages: 54
#8

I would argue the opposite on alternatives: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than the cam side of things.

For people who need the filters to actually work, the alternatives experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on alternatives, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If you do try alternatives, do this:

  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the alternatives pool near you is thin
  • Message within a day of matching — on alternatives that window closes fast
  • Turn off read receipts on alternatives if the effort-to-result ratio is making you anxious about response times

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