The LibertiChat blog
Guides, tips and news about online chat: safety, webcams, games and meeting people.
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Practice French conversation with real speakers
You can read a menu in French. You know your verb tables. You have watched a whole series with French subtitles. Then a real French speaker asks you a simple question and…
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Chat room etiquette: the unwritten rules of chat rooms
Nobody hands you a rulebook when you walk into a chat room. Yet give it five minutes and you can feel the codes: some things go down fine, others get an eye-roll…
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Host a Virtual Party: A 2-Hour Plan With No Dead Air
You get eight friends into a room, everyone says hi, and then nothing. That awkward silence around minute twenty is something anyone who has tried to host a virtual party knows well.…
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Elo Rating Explained: How Elo Works, No Math
You just won a game of chess and your rating barely moved. Yesterday you lost one and dropped a lot more. Is the system broken? No. That is exactly how an Elo…
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Discord alternative: forum, social network or chat room?
Looking for a Discord alternative? Or trying to work out whether your group belongs on a forum, a social network or in a chat room? All four let people type messages to…
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How to Chat Online When You’re Shy: A Gentle Method
Shyness doesn’t switch off when you open a laptop. Your pulse still jumps a little before you send that first line, and the urge to close the tab is real. The difference…
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Username Ideas: How to Choose One You’ll Keep for Years
In a chat room, people read you before they meet you. Long before your first “hi”, your username is sitting in the list of who’s online, and everyone scrolling past has already…
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Talk to Strangers Online: Why It Helps and How to Start
Some evenings you want to talk, just not to anyone who knows you. No one who’ll bring it up at the next family dinner, no one with opinions about your job or…
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Word Games to Play With Friends Online, Live in Chat
Some nights you want a conversation. Other nights you want something to do while the conversation happens: a five-minute word puzzle, a Scrabble game that lasts all evening, a few rolls of…