Trying to get a straight answer on old-school adult chatrooms on IRC still exist without the marketing spin. If web-based is your priority, the platform quietly widens your distance setting, and how often the same faces reappear suffers for it. The reply rate moves the needle further than raw member count, which is the whole problem with irc chat rooms.
Look closely at irc chat rooms and what decides it is the number of live users, not how slick the interface looks. For web-based chat rooms in particular, the deciding factor is how honest the pricing page is, going by the last year or so. I judge web-based on one thing: the honest advice is to write the bio for one person rather than for everyone, as far as I can tell.
Applied to web-based chat rooms, the platform boosts newer accounts over established ones, which makes any straight comparison unreliable. The short version on old-school adult chatrooms on IRC still exist is that half the frustration disappears once you keep the first meet public and short. What am I missing on irc chat rooms?