SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 — Reddit has announced that, in light of how the Covid-19 outbreak has brought new subscribers to their platform looking for people to talk to, they’ve launched a “Start Chatting” feature on the discussion site which connects people with others from the same community...
New ‘Start Chatting’ feature on Reddit. — Picture courtesy of Reddit
With a great deal of the world being ordered to self-quarantine in their homes to slow the spread of Covid-19, social sites designed to connect people across the globe with one another have been experiencing major increases in activity. Each subreddit, or themed community, now has a button for this at the top of the page. When pressed, the site will match them with other people from the same community and put them in a small group to chat together.
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