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Well, Chatroulette validated the idea that people are naturally curious to meet other random people, but the execution was poor. To me Airtime seems like Chatr

• citricsquid 14y ago
  The entire value in Chatroulette is the anonymity. You're absolutely right that Chatroulette is done wrong, the product sucks in so many ways, but what Airtime have done is take one of the parts that doesn't suck and "fix" it.
  • hy3lxs 14y ago
    We're trying to have the best of both worlds. You are not anonymous to Airtime -- so you can be held accountable for your actions in the public areas of the site. However, you are always anonymous to new people that you meet. We do not send your facebook id, name, or geolocation to anyone you don't know until you mutually friend them.
    • citricsquid 14y ago
      oh, that's much better. You should make that clear somewhere on the site before starting to chat[1], I signed up and was unaware that I remained anonymous so decided not to go any further. I saw my details listed so made the assumption everyone saw them. [1] I see "Anonymous You are anonymous until you send an add request" but that's after I started to search for people just now to check, I would never have got that far if you hadn't explained about anonymity.
• sunpatel 14y ago
  i think why charroulette succeeded was definitely because of the anonymity
• ryanmerket 14y ago
  I'm of the opinion that it takes more than 'natural curiosity' to convert someone to an engaged user.