@Christina put it better than I'd. The only thing I'd add about most active time is that whether the community is large enough to matter matters more than the feature list.
My experience with most active time over the first few days: what I saw was noticeably thinner than in a big city.
If anyone has tested most active time properly, I want to know whether you can message first without paying.
What I actually want to know about active time is how the moderation handles the community.
The question underneath all of this is whether you can message first without paying, at least with active time.
a free alternative is the other one people mention whenever most active time comes up.
The condensed version of my most active time experience:
- Ask one specific question instead of a generic opener, especially if most active time is new to you
- Say what you are looking for in plain words — on most active time that mattered more than anything else
- The thing that separates the good ones on most active time turned out to be less reliable than it looks from outside