Chatstep Review November 2020

Chatstep lets its users choose if they want to access their chatrooms anonymously or through a registered account. When choosing to browse the website anonymously, you have to pick a chatroom first from the available public chatrooms list. Once you have chosen one, you will decide on a username, and if you want, you could also nominate a password so you could go back anytime to that room. After agreeing to the website’s terms and conditions, you are successfully inside your chosen chatroom. Now, once you want to leave the room, you can just do so by exiting the tab. This would delete your chat message history.

If you choose to register an account, you could do so by providing basic information such as email, username, password, and then answer a captcha. An account verification link would be sent to your email to successfully activate your account. Registered users can create a chatroom and set it to public or private. You also have to manually click the ‘leave room’ button from the chatroom’s menu bar on the left-hand side to permanently pull out from the room.

Chatstep is an online chatroom platform that offers three basic features:

Create Room

Creating a room is strictly for registered users. You set the room’s content by ticking if your room is a ‘clean room’ or if explicit and/or adult content will be shared in your room. You will also set the category of your room—that being; ‘Friendly’, which circles on communities, regional, and social interests, ‘Fantasy’ for role-playing and exploration, and lastly, ‘Image’, which is an image-focused chat. Users that create chat rooms are required to write descriptions and set chat room guidelines, which would be made available to any user who wishes to join. If a password is set, only those that you give the password to would be able to access your chatroom.

Join Room

Registered users can join rooms if they know the chatroom name and if there is a set password for the specific chatroom they wish to join.

Public Room

Public rooms are available both for registered users and anonymous users. The only difference is, when you are a registered user, you have to manually leave the room if you wish to be no longer part of it. If you are an anonymous user, closing the tab would automatically exit you from the room.

Since you can use the site's features without creating an account, most people choose to chat anonymously. However, anonymous users will not be able to edit their avatar pages which can contain a profile picture and username.

Avatar pages are the closest thing to a profile page that you can find on the site. However, it does not have the information that you would normally see on profiles. These are just pop-up boxes that contain a picture and the username of the member.