What This Site Does, and Nothing It Does Not

Everything below is one product with three ways of running a conversation. The useful question is not what exists but which one fits the night you are having.

Both cameras on is the default and the reason the site exists. Use it when you have decent light and a room you do not mind showing. It reads as the most open option to whoever lands opposite you, and it gets the most conversation back.

Microphone only suits bad lighting, a shared room, or the wish to be heard before being looked at. Ending a voice call that is going nowhere also costs less socially than walking out of a video one, which is why people try more of them.

Typing wins in three situations: a weak signal where video has already collapsed, anything that has to be spelled exactly, and a pairing where neither side shares a language. It is also the cheapest way to break the silence in the first ten seconds.

The one control that matters across all three is the next button, and the one number that matters is the free-match balance at the top of the matching screen. Everything else on this page is detail.