how do you find an online play group?

Follow up: has anyone had any great success? I applied for one game, we had one session and DM bailed. Been reluctant to try again since.

I found a group on dndBeyond. We finished The Lost Mines of Phandelver++ and we’re getting into the meat of Decent into Avernus.
One player had to bow out at the end of Phandelver due to college. She was a great player, so it was a loss.
DM’s wife stepped in and we’ve been having a blast!
I use Fantasy Grounds, and they have a forum and discord with sections for players looking for gm, and reverse. I put a comment in the discord that I was looking for a game to play and within a couple of days had two offers that fit my schedule and have been playing in both games for over a year now. One game we even switched from a couple of Vaesen games to Pathfinder, and once that's done, who knows where we go. The other game is old school DnD, and it has been quite the adventure.
- Interesting! I've always sort of thought that my enjoyment of dnd was due to playing with players I know, you've got that 100% buy in... But I guess nerds are everywhere on the internet and it would be the same with a group from a forum! Hmmm... Do I take the plunge?
roll20 I probably have like 15 people I've played with I could hit up for a game. I also have a consistent group I play with we've done 3 campaigns together and just started a new campaign myself

Roll20 has a section with listings. It seems quite busy although I've never actually participated. There are paid and free games. I would also check some of the bigger dnd discords. Most have text only games you can easily hop into.

Serious answer: be a GM. There's huge demand for GMs and if you start a game, lots of people will want to play with you.

Look for pen & paper Discord servers. They are made to find groups. At least that worked for me.

Roll20. They have a listings board. You can make one seeking a campaign or - more advisably, scroll through active listings and apply to the games that fit your requirements.

Reddit is a good place, there are large groups just for D&D and non D&D groups. Discord, I start most of my games with discord stands.

reddit is a good place
Are you sure about that?
- Its large and the looking for group subs are just people looking for game groups