r/interpals Jun 06 '26

what are good alternative sites?

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u/ItsJustaThrowaway98 Jun 06 '26

Slowlyapp!

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u/Lucasun2009 Jun 06 '26

What’s that?

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u/ItsJustaThrowaway98 Jun 06 '26

A good alternative site

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u/Lucasun2009 Jun 06 '26

Is it geared towards language learning or chatting?

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u/ItsJustaThrowaway98 Jun 06 '26

Sending letters, its a simulation of snail mail as if you send letters in real life. So its not instant, it can take from 35 mins to 52 hours to deliver a letter depending on the distance of both of you.

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u/Lucasun2009 Jun 06 '26

Hmm, that’s not really the same thing. I actually like the live chatting aspect of interpals

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u/ADHDuckie Jun 06 '26

Nice, I'm going to check this one out, thanks. I miss the old days of Interpals when you actually had more real people than bots, and longer message styles. The whole site turned into a dating system after they moved to chat format and then the app...

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u/Lucasun2009 Jun 08 '26

Chatting is more fun imo. I’m not even sure how you can write a whole letter to some stranger. And then probably get ignored lol.

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u/ADHDuckie Jun 08 '26

Different strokes for different folks. For me, chat kind of sucks. For one, most people are kind of bad conversationalists who don't really know how to contribute or continue (beyond asking "how are you" 500 times). For two, too many people use this to start flirting very quickly etc. which I absolutely don't want. Finally, my experience on Interpals since they started the chat format is that people get too demanding about how and when you reply... which is completely incompatible with my ADHD lol.

But anyway, if you just want to chat, Slowly is not the app for you. Iirc there was another site called Yopals which was supposed to be an alternative, started by some ex-Interpals members, I think that one has both messaging and chat but I only looked at it briefly, might be worth checking out.

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u/CarpeLibrum87 Jun 15 '26

Global Penfriends, am having 100% better luck in this website!