Reddit yanked a new chat room feature just a day after launch after an outcry from moderators. Quiptalk is a social networking app for communicating with friends in topical chat rooms. Its spotlight ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

Shelby Brown (she/her/hers) is an editor for CNET's services team. She covers tips and tricks for apps, operating systems and devices, as well as mobile gaming and Apple Arcade news. Shelby also ...

Chatroulette is one of the most popular random chat websites on the Internet. It’s a fairly simple premise. You match with other people and have a chat. There are a bunch of apps that do this, believe ...

Products like Slack, Hipchat, Yammer and Asana have been slowly picking apart the world of enterprise communication, giving workers new, easier to use, and frankly more fun platforms to speak to each ...

Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could ...

Regular phone calls are over—these days, it’s all about video chatting. If you’ve got a smartphone, you’re likely holding a video-chatting machine (in all its forward-facing 1.3 megapixel glory). And ...

Google Chat officially launched for consumers recently, and that means the time has come to dive back into everyone’s favorite subject: Google messaging services! Google has presided over some ...

After a clash over Facebook's "real-names" policy, the company released an app Friday that encourages communication between anonymous parties. Dubbed Rooms, the app lets users share content based on ...

Facebook's new app, Rooms, harkens back to the days of 1990s anonymous chat rooms. New York Times tech reporter, Mike Isaac, talks about why having secret identities online is a good thing. Facebook ...

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Let’s cut to the point. Finding good lesbian chat rooms feels like a chore. Most are packed with bots, dudes pretending to be women, or just tumbleweeds. It’s a mess. You need a place to find lesbians ...