What is stripchate?

I want to be wrong about stripchate, so tell me if I am. The bit nobody covers on stripchate is the hours-to-dates ratio.

I have tried a few options across platforms in this space already and none of them stuck. The pattern I see with stripchate is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

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

• Ask the members answering here what stripchate is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
• Block early and report often on stripchate — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; stripchate activity is nothing like flat
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — stripchate rewards it

Even a one-line answer on stripchate would help at this point.

Yes, and I would add that actually getting anywhere on stripchate gets worse the longer you stay.

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

Yes, and I would add that the return on the hours on stripchate gets worse the longer you stay. The thing people underrate about stripchate is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city. If the payoff is your main worry with stripchate, test it in the first week rather than the first month. What changed my results on stripchate was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on stripchate scales with how many people are online at your hours. The pattern I see with stripchate is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. You can work around the time it costs on stripchate, but you have to be deliberate about it. Your stripchate results will vary by city more than by platform.

Not my read at all: for people who have actually tried it, stripchate was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about stripchate comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window.

Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on stripchate than the sheer time it ate. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on stripchate than the sheer time it ate.

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

Agreed, although with stripchate I would frame the hours-to-dates ratio as a symptom rather than the cause. Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on stripchate than the sheer time it ate. For the crowd on this board, the stripchate experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else.

Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on stripchate than the sheer time it ate. What changed my results on stripchate was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Most of the noise about stripchate comes from people measuring the payoff over far too short a window. Not saying stripchate suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Adam Hayes put the stripchate case better than I would have, though that feels too harsh on stripchate, given the payoff is a problem across what is on offer rather than specific to it. I judge stripchate by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

There is no version of stripchate where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across the sites people keep naming, and stripchate sits mid-table. Either way, the effort-to-result ratio is the thing I would test first on stripchate.

Picking up Mila's point about the hours-to-dates ratio, reading this back, my stripchate notes say almost the same thing about the payoff. If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with stripchate, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on stripchate than the sheer time it ate. Either way, actually getting anywhere is the thing I would test first on stripchate.

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

I read Reese Carter's reply on stripchate and reading this back, my stripchate notes say almost the same thing about the payoff.

For most of us posting here, the stripchate experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else.