Starting a thread on most active bbw sites because the existing advice contradicts itself. Active sites is the clearest case of it — nothing improves until you treat an empty bio as a red flag. Same story on bbw: the platform keeps deleted profiles in search for weeks, so the numbers on the homepage stop meaning much.
The bbw angle is worse, because the signal-to-noise in search collapses as soon as the platform quietly widens your distance setting. If active sites is your priority, the honest advice is to read the billing terms before uploading a photo, with the usual caveats.
Applied to active sites, most of the disappointment traces back to the quality of the filters. Strip the marketing away from most active bbw sites and the deciding factor is how often the same faces reappear, with the usual caveats. If you have been through the bbw version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.