![]() But after my first few days chatting with Redditors, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most people are super nice. Initially, I was afraid that most people would bring out the pitchforks and… unkind words. If you haven’t used AOL in a while, the idea of chatting with uninhibited strangers disguised behind bizarre usernames might give you pause - especially if you're, say, an admin openly asking for feedback from literally anyone on, say, a platform like Reddit, which is widely known for its passionate and vocal communities. TIL: Chatting with strangers on the internet isn’t so scary It’s been fun, and now we’d like to share some of the things we learned. So far I’ve talked to just over 7,000 people one on one. For some reason, I volunteered to respond to as many people who chatted to that account as I could keep up with. To do this, we made a new user, u/reddit_chat_feedback, and added it to the top of everyone’s chat contacts list. Perhaps most importantly, we wanted to get to know people using chat in order to learn from them. When we started, we knew that most people didn’t personally know other redditors, since the core of the Reddit experience is pseudonymous sharing and discussion, so we wanted to make sure there was a place for people in the betas to test chat, give feedback, and have a bit of fun. Most people still don’t know about Reddit Chat, so, for context, over the past year we’ve been beta testing a few new chat features with a small number of you. Guess what? Chicken butt! (More on that later.) For now, hi! I’m u/ityoclys, but if you're one of the 7,000 or so people who messaged the admins with your feedback on Chat, you may remember me better as u/reddit_chat_feedback. Check out r/subchats or this post if you’d like to see how it works! ![]() Chat rooms are now in beta and being released to more subreddits daily. TL DR: Your feedback helped us reshape the direction of chat on Reddit from one-to-one chat to private group chats and eventually to community-based chat rooms (and your jokes helped me get through many a long day). ![]()
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