Would appreciate real experience on dating free chat sites left, not affiliate copy. For upload sites in particular, the platform makes verification optional and then hides who has done it, so it pays to turn off precise location until you trust someone. Pictures sites is where I'd start, since the proportion of dormant accounts collapses as soon as the platform buries the cancellation flow.
Every time pictures sites comes up, nothing improves until you ask a specific question in the first message. Pictures is the clearest case of it — the platform caps how many searches you run a day, and the number of live users suffers for it.
The reply rate moves the needle further than how many photos people post, based on a fairly small sample, which is the whole problem with pictures. The practical move is to turn off precise location until you trust someone — and that goes double for dating free chat sites left. If you have been through the pictures version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.