I took a look at it and it seems like just an aggregator site and the design made it feel very shady.

I would shy away from it.

Nope!

Any place that has to continually text women to advertise is not a place I'd put myself

So that is y I was asking. Seems to me either a knock off or their next site when Backpage gets shut down. It's free for a basic ad.

I posted an ad yesterday, didn't get a single response. I'm suspicious of it for sure, especially because I was able to write my ad and headline like the old BP but when I looked in the ad section at other ads, they were all the new style with just a phone number and photos.