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There've been a few failed attempts at college-exclusive random chat (e.g., RandomDorm), but I've been thinking about trying it on Omegle for a while, in case t
by eurleif 13y ago
There've been a few failed attempts at college-exclusive random chat (e.g., RandomDorm), but I've been thinking about trying it on Omegle for a while, in case the existing userbase would make it work better. Your comment got me off my ass, and now there's a minimum viable implementation up. Would love feedback.
- fossuser 13y agoCool - I no longer have a .edu, but I think the idea is solid. Current Omegle is filled with too much spam - I would even take the .edu thing a step further and start at just one school (restrict by specific school) so you have the anonymity of the chat to talk to someone, but then they're also around if you hear about something going on that night or they want to meet etc. I think that would be neat. I think it'd be a popular chat web/phone app on college campuses if people knew about it and a good addition to what I'd thought would make a good dating site at the time (http://www.zacharyalberico.net/blog/dating-websites/ http://www.zacharyalberico.net/blog/dating-websites/), but I think tinder does some of that now. Anyway, that's awesome you got something up!
- eurleif 13y agoYou can restrict by specific school. It looks like this: http://imgur.com/v5fjapw http://imgur.com/v5fjapw I'm defaulting it to "any college", at least for now. If the feature catches on, I might make the default change based on the user's college (i.e., create a list of colleges which have a significant userbase).
- fossuser 13y agoNice - let me know how it works out, would be cool to hear.