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View submission: Deprecating community chat rooms
Shareable links for group chats is a great idea and something we have been thinking about.
However for the immediate future we will be focusing on quality and safety improvements on 1:1 chat.
Comment by ohsomeday_ at 19/11/2020 at 00:16 UTC
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Thank you for answering.
So, as I understand, a considerable part of our subreddits' activity is being restructured, and now we as mods have no straightforward alternative to advertise the new direct chat groups, plus we have to figure out an efficient way to keep the flow of participants going.
I don't quite see how this will work smoothly, considering how people/accounts come and go with these sub chat rooms and on Reddit overall. At least in the case of the sub chats I am a member or a mod of, they manage themselves organically with minimal modding. Now users will have to directly reach out to the mod team or other users to get added, adding extra steps for those who might want to participate and more work for the mods. (Please correct me if I'm missing something here.) I'm afraid this will just limit and stifle participation since most of our chat users join to lurk and the core group of more active chat participants changes quite frequently.
A more sufficient heads-up than "Starting today, users will not be able to create community chat rooms on Android and Desktop" would have been appreciated with this. What if some subreddits had plans in using the chat rooms as a tool for community activities, etc.? Anyhow, I do hope the Chat Team takes some of our concerns into consideration, even though we're clearly in the minority here. I'm looking forward to seeing how the group chat will improve from now on, especially with the newly added weight of the sub chats.
Comment by Eros-69 at 19/11/2020 at 03:10 UTC
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That's pretty ridiculous. Most are not happy at all over this. We rely on chat rooms!!! Especially during this Rona (covid) stuff!! As a Mod I've got tons crying they can't handle this! We rely on our small community. And CC chat room IS a community!! 🥺😵
Comment by [deleted] at 19/11/2020 at 11:16 UTC
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Comment by ZadocPaet at 18/11/2020 at 23:00 UTC
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So, you're taking away our chatrooms and are not giving us a way to link it to our users? This seems like a massive step back.