Ok, to start, I find this website refreshing and, to me, more appealing because it's not a hook up site. But at the same time, yes it can be, if you happen to run into a member who's situation makes hooking up feasible.
I live in Columbia, Mo a town/city of about 124,000 ppl. 2 universities and a college. My website of choice for hooking up locally is BBRT.
Only because of the type of member it attracts, ie Pig, more risky and at risk members, the broader and more intense sexuality, etc. plus
they include my area and have given it, it's own room per say. It's member coverage, potentially would include the areas up to where the St Louis and Kansas City influence picks up, east and west. South down to where Springfield's influence starts and north, I would imagine could go as far as Des Moines, Iowa.
However, I've never seen more than 8 members on at any one time. If we only use Columbia's pop. numbers, take the out the females, then remove the straight men, leaving only the gay men, you'd be left with a member potential of about 4000+. Now factor out all the quirks
and you're left with about 2000 potentials. Your online member average is 4, making your online market share of approx. 0.2%.
I've bored you with all this because you had said BBRT was your main competition. I don't think so. Adam4Adam as of right now, has
89,000+ online members where BBRT has 13,000. Today's market target is probably 18-30yrs. These are the ones that are changing or maybe rearranging the social sexuality that we're accustom to. In the leather community the Old Guard is on it's way out, being replaced by the New Guard. If you've noticed, the Hanky Codes have probably tripled in the last 10yrs. I could see that as the old generations die off, those old codes will too, leaving the new codes. Look at the old pig and the new pig. You can just tell the old pig, is a pig. He has that "Fuck yeah" sexual essence. The new pig doesn't need to look the part to play the part. Back in the day if you were pulled, sexually, in that direction, your only resources for learning were other Pigs and porn. Both came with the persona. Today, that same kind of sex, is on the internet, But without the leather costumes and uniforms, the dark and dank dungeon and most importantly, the raw, from the dirt, animalistic intensity that could only be characterized by one word "PIG".
Personally I wont join A4A in this area. Im sure my odds of hooking up would increase but i'm not one to sacrifice quality for quantity.