Not sure I buy that, Addison Hughes. nobody warns you that video chatting depends so heavily on whether it actually works. If the interface side is not sorted, video chatting will not go anywhere. The honest tradeoff with video chatting is the conversion from match to conversation against convenience.
Once I stopped worrying about the pricing question, video chatting got a lot simpler.
The money side of it matters more for video chatting than any feature list.
In practice, video chatting lives or dies on whether the effort pays off. Is that everyone's experience with video chatting, or just mine? That is roughly where I landed on how to find a free video chatting site.
Concretely, for video chatting:
- keep one clear, current photo of your face at least where video chatting is concerned
- stay on the platform for the first few exchanges on the video chatting side
- log in at different times of day, not just evenings while you are testing video chatting
- allow a full month before deciding anything about video chatting
I compared a few on video chatting and Datewander came out ahead for me.