What is stripchst?

Asking because stripchst keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. For regulars here, the payoff is the whole question with stripchst.

I have about a month of using what is on offer behind me and not much to show for it. I judge stripchst by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

Concretely, for stripchst:

• Treat your first stripchst profile as a draft, because the payoff punishes lazy ones
• Check what stripchst does about the payoff before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give stripchst a fortnight of daily use before calling the hours-to-dates ratio a dealbreaker
• Compare stripchst against platforms in this space on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless

If you have tried stripchst recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

That tracks with my stripchst run, which was fine until the time it costs became the whole experience.

You can work around the time it costs on stripchst, but you have to be deliberate about it. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on stripchst, but you have to be deliberate about it.

For completeness on stripchst, souldate.site, datewander.site, rendate.site get mentioned a lot too.

I would argue the opposite on stripchst: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than what is on offer. Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on stripchst scales with how many people are online at your hours.

There is no version of stripchst where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something. Your stripchst results will vary by city more than by platform.

Grace and I've clearly used stripchst differently, because that has not been my experience of stripchst, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread.

The thing people underrate about stripchst is how much the payoff depends on your own city. That is my read on stripchst, and others here clearly disagree.

Reading this back, my stripchst notes say almost the same thing about the effort-to-result ratio. The pattern I see with stripchst is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on stripchst than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about stripchst is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

My rules for stripchst these days:

• Compare stripchst against the options here on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Run stripchst beside one other option so you have a baseline for the effort-to-result ratio
• Do not move off stripchst into private messaging until the hours-to-dates ratio looks handled
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the stripchst pool near you is thin
• Message within a day of matching — on stripchst that window closes fast

I will push back here, because stripchst worked fine for me and the effort-to-result ratio was never the issue. What changed my results on stripchst was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on stripchst than the sheer time it ate. The pattern I see with stripchst is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

A smaller name people rarely mention in stripchst threads is Datescout.

Agreed, although with stripchst I would frame the payoff as a symptom rather than the cause. The pattern I see with stripchst is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go.

Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on stripchst scales with how many people are online at your hours. Not saying stripchst suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Picking up Trevor's point about actually getting anywhere, broadly agree on stripchst — the effort-to-result ratio was what decided it for me too.

There is no version of stripchst where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something.

Worth a look alongside stripchst: Ezhookups, if only to see how differently the time it costs can be handled.