How Roulette Chat Works
Roulette is a different application to the rest of the site, not another room. This is what that means in practice.
How it works
Press connect and you are paired with whoever is free at that moment. If the conversation is not going anywhere, skip and you get the next person. There is no room to join and no member list to browse: you are either connected to somebody or waiting to be.
Filters narrow the pool by gender and region. The tighter the filter the longer the wait, so start wide if it is a quiet hour.
Roulette compared with the group rooms
The two run on separate software and suit different moods.
| Group chat rooms | Roulette | |
|---|---|---|
| Who you talk to | Everyone in the room at once | One stranger at a time |
| Finding people | You choose a room by topic or language | Paired at random, skip for the next |
| Cams on screen | Several at the same time | One, whoever you are paired with |
| Privacy | Public by default, private on request | Private by default, nobody else watching |
| Your nickname | Can be reserved, carries badges | Chosen for the session |
| Moderation | Moderators in the rooms around the clock | Report and skip, as pairs are private |
| Best for | Settling in and talking at length | Meeting a lot of people quickly |
What you need
A current browser and a camera. That is genuinely all of it, and there is nothing to install.
You do not need Flash, or any plugin at all. Flash was discontinued in December 2020 and no modern browser can run it. If anything tells you to download a Flash plugin to use a chat site, it is either years out of date or trying to put something else on your machine.
Video runs on WebRTC, which is built into every current browser and connects the two of you directly rather than through a server in the middle.
If it will not connect
Nine times out of ten the browser is blocking the camera. That permission prompt comes from the browser rather than from us, and if you dismissed it you can re-enable camera and microphone from the padlock in the address bar, then reload.
If you are connecting but seeing nobody, widen the gender and region filters. A narrow filter on a quiet hour can leave you waiting indefinitely.
On a phone, use the browser itself rather than an in-app browser inside another app, as those routinely block camera access.
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