Who are camdudes?

Curious where people land on camdudes, because I keep getting told two opposite things. I do not need a feature list on camdudes — I need to know about the return on the hours.

For context I am mostly comparing streaming chat platforms rather than anything niche. For people who have actually tried it, the camdudes experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

Where I need help with camdudes:

• Treat your first camdudes profile as a draft, because the payoff punishes lazy ones
• Check what camdudes does about the return on the hours before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give camdudes a fortnight of daily use before calling actually getting anywhere a dealbreaker
• Compare camdudes against cam platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless

Anyone with a recent camdudes story, please jump in.

That has not been my experience of camdudes, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. I judge camdudes by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across cam platforms, and camdudes sits mid-table. Whatever you pick, judge camdudes on the return on the hours after a month rather than after a weekend.

I would argue the opposite on camdudes: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than streaming chat platforms. Honestly, the time it costs was less of a problem on camdudes than the sheer time it ate.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on camdudes scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around actually getting anywhere on camdudes, but you have to be deliberate about it.

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

Not my read at all: for most of us posting here, camdudes was the only thing that produced anything. You can work around the payoff on camdudes, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across video chat sites, and camdudes sits mid-table. For regulars here, the camdudes experience lives or dies on the time it costs and almost nothing else. That is my read on camdudes, and others here clearly disagree.

Not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, camdudes was the only thing that produced anything. If actually getting anywhere is your main worry with camdudes, test it in the first week rather than the first month. There is no version of camdudes where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something.

For most of us posting here, the camdudes experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about camdudes is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city. Not saying camdudes suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Where I differ from Audrey_Denver on camdudes: this matches what I found with camdudes, where the return on the hours is exactly where it falls down.

The pattern I see with camdudes is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Whatever you pick, judge camdudes on the effort-to-result ratio after a month rather than after a weekend.

Agreed, although with camdudes I would frame the payoff as a symptom rather than the cause. You can work around the hours-to-dates ratio on camdudes, but you have to be deliberate about it.

For people replying above, the camdudes experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else. You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on camdudes, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on camdudes was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If you do try camdudes, do this:

• Turn off read receipts on camdudes if the time it costs is making you anxious about response times
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the camdudes pool near you is thin
• Run camdudes beside one other option so you have a baseline for the effort-to-result ratio
• Give camdudes a fortnight of daily use before calling the return on the hours a dealbreaker

I would argue the opposite on camdudes: actually getting anywhere is the one thing it handles better than the cam side of things.

For most people in this thread, the camdudes experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. If the return on the hours is your main worry with camdudes, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Reading this back, my camdudes notes say almost the same thing about the hours-to-dates ratio. There is no version of camdudes where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

The pattern I see with camdudes is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go. If the payoff is your main worry with camdudes, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Whatever you pick, judge camdudes on the time it costs after a month rather than after a weekend.

Others asking about camdudes have named datewander.site, datescout.site.

Yes, and I would add that the return on the hours on camdudes gets worse the longer you stay.

The thing people underrate about camdudes is how much the payoff depends on your own city.

I keep Turndate open as a control while testing camdudes — useful for judging actually getting anywhere honestly.