14 DAY TRIAL // Chatroulette, the popular and rather infamous random video chat site, has been reborn as the second iteration went live. The site had gone down last week as a new version was to take its place. The launch took longer than expected, but the site's rather underwhelming revamp is now live.
Chatroulette 2.0 is up but it's somewhat unstable for the moment. This is somewhat to be expected, even Digg had problems when the revamped site went live last week, but it doesn't make for a great impression.
There are several changes to the interface, though, it's definitely still very spartan in terms of options and features. In fact, some of the features from the old site are now gone.
However, the site's biggest problem and the thing that most people hoped the new version would address, the number of men exposing themselves, doesn't look to be gone.
In fact, the new version seems to do little in this regard, those that have experimented with Chatroulette 2.0 found that the issue is still very much a problem.
Chatroulette became a sensation overnight, intriguing many users with its novel and direct approach. The site was bare-bones but the simplicity behind it made it so appealing.
Users would be randomly paired up with each other and would be able to instantly video chat with people from around the world. If you didn't like who you ended up with, you just hit the "next" button and take another spin.
The randomness and anonymity of the site appealed to many but, unfortunately, it made it perfect for those simply wanting to expose themselves to unsuspecting strangers.
This quickly became a huge problem and the site was overrun, turning away regular users. It was hoped that the new version would at least attempt to fix this, but it doesn't seem to be the case.