Reddit adds chatrooms to the site, gives users a taste of the '90s

In the '90s, while the Internet was still in its infancy and as platforms like Facebook Messenger and Slack did not exist, public chat rooms gave people a virtual identity and connected them online. More importantly, these chat rooms, in addition to giving users the freedom to share their views with unknown people with common interests, allowed them to connect with people without revealing their true identity. However, with the spread of Internet communication technologies and the emergence of Internet-based applications, this trend slowly faded. But now, Reddit is bringing this trend back with its live chat rooms.

Reddit launched its live chat rooms for some subprograms almost a year ago and now the social news aggregation and discussion site opens the

Live chat rooms will work in the same way as Slack (platform for business conversations) and Discord (conversation platform for games), which means that only moderators will be able to create new discussion forums. communities that will also moderate shared content in chat rooms. The discussions in these live chat rooms may differ from anything specific like the fifth episode of Game of Thrones season 7 or something as unobtrusive as a cat.

In addition to moderating discussions, moderators will also be responsible for available features. specific discussion rooms. But that's not all. Moderators can also set a custom rate to limit the frequency of publishing a subroutine, set custom filters to block specific words and phrases, and determine basic functions such as blocking certain users and blocking discussions.

Although these features are immediately available to users, the company plans to release in the coming days a set of features that will allow users to moderate chat rooms more effectively.

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In the near future , the company plans to release an API that would allow moderators to customize their chat rooms and build their own tools based on their specific needs. In addition to this, Reddit also plans to add notifications for mentions in the chat rooms.