Which service will replace the Yahoo public chat room after it gets discontinued by Yahoo?

• Last week, Yahoo announced that it will discontinue the public chat rooms feature within its Messenger service. It was a great product for people who wish to talk with strangers and make friends easily. I understand that there was a large amount of spam on these chat rooms, but it could have been controlled. Is there any startup or new website trying to replace the Yahoo public chat room?

• Answer:

  The problem of "chat rooms" in the 90s was that people tended to be a bit harsh for no good reason or you have people who are straight up weird. No real monitoring or reporting of trash talks and lets not forget the BOTS. But humans in general are social and like meeting new people who have similar interests in music, fashion, sports, etc. These have been facilitated by chat rooms only, since social networking sites such as Facebook connects you with people you already know or have met and think about it how weird would it be if you wanted to make a new friend and decided to add a complete stranger just because you both liked the same band's page. So in short chat rooms are needed to fill the void of meeting new people that the new social networks do not provide a platform for and at the same time it should be more monitored to have a pleasant interaction. Here is where Chatimity (http://www.chatimity.com) comes in with an app that takes care of the yesteryear problems of chat room interaction.  There is a unique Nice Points system which helps monitor the language and quality of conversation in the chat. This helps in maintaining a user base that is genuine. You have chat rooms based on country, state or even your city. There are interest based chat rooms. In short, regular chat room interface but with a lot of better features that makes your experience worth your time. If you want to read more about us, check out our blog : http://blog.chatimity.com/.