What Is Chat Avenue?

#1 Chat Avenue is an online chat room website offering 100% free instant messaging services for anyone. If you are old enough to remember AOL chat rooms you’ll know what Chat Avenue is like. With a wide selection of rooms including adult chat, kids rooms, and even lesbian and gay chat rooms (to name but a few), there really is something for everyone, as long as you are over 13 years old.

The level of anonymity, lack of security, and rather young minimum age have been touchy points as they create an environment for the wrong kind of people to thrive. But that’s what we are here to discuss. We go into detail about what the site really is about and how you can use it in the right way.

Pros

• Completely free to use with a very cheap price for VIP membership and online credits 

• Probably the fastest and easiest registration process we’ve ever come across

• A very active community of chatters in almost every chat room (Adult, lesbian, and gay Chat Avenue rooms especially so)

• Moderators are very responsive and actively communicate with their chat room members regularly (it creates a deeper level of community)

• All chat rooms are monitored live by moderators at all times to enforce chat rules

Cons

• In the past, the site has been linked with child predators

• Bare-bones website design that does not feel up to date with today’s caliber of dating sites

• A ton of unwanted ads of other adult sites

• The lack of security and overall anonymity of users

• The claimed webcam chat feature is not part of Chat Avenue and only redirects users to Coomeet.com

Login Process

On Chat Avenue you can chat live with thousands of people around the world for free and without the need to register. There are two ways that you can log in though. As a guest account or as a registered account. So registration on the platform is completely optional. To log in and join a chat room as a guest account without registering, simply go to Chat-Avenue.com and click on one of the 20 chat rooms. Select the option to log in as a guest and provide the following:

• Username

• Gender (Male, Female, Other)

• Age (5-99)

• Complete a reCAPTCHA

Many of the chat rooms won’t even ask for your gender or age and you’ll just need to create a username to start chatting. If you do choose to create a registered account on the site, simply click on any of the chat rooms on Chat-Avenue.com and then ‘Register now’ after which you’ll be asked to provide the following:

• Username

• Password

• Email address

• Gender (Male, Female, Other)

• Age (5-99)

• Complete a reCAPTCHA

After you click ‘Register’ you’ll be sent an email with a verification code. Pop this code into the chat box and voila, you’ve successfully registered to that chat room. On Chat Avenue you won’t do just one registration though, you’ll have to do a separate registration for every individual chat room you decide to join.

Profile Completion

Chat Avenue profiles are extremely basic to begin with. Once you’ve joined a room your username, age, and gender will be the only things shown on your profile (unless you joined as a Guest for a chat room that only asked for a username).

The type of account you have will determine what information you can add and edit on your profile, and how much you can personalize things. Being able to change the font and color of text and your username is something we don’t come across often on dating sites. The table below shows what you can do on either account.

Guest profiles aren’t able to add profile photos to their profiles. Each chat room has a unique preselected image that will show up as the profile photo for Guest accounts. For example, the guest account image of the “Video Games Chat” room is a game controller.

User Account Quality

The account quality on ChatAvenue is what you would expect on a mostly anonymous chat room site from 1999. It’s more about having fun and being creative than showing who you are. A lot of the profiles will be guest accounts and you will only see their age and gender.

While registered members are able to upload a photo, very few use this to show their face. ChatAvenue profile photos are mostly that of current memes or photos of famous people. Very few even have an ‘About me’ filled out, but a large number of accounts have personalized the color and font of their username and message text to show some personality.

Dating Features

Game Rooms

Each chat room on ChatAvenue has a sub-room called the Quiz Room. Here you can test your skills in a competitive game of word scramble and trivia. Simply answer the questions from the Quizbot correctly and in time to get points. Scores are posted on the scoreboard so you can see who has the biggest brain in that chat room.

Friends List

You’ll be chatting with a lot of new random strangers every time you log into a chat room. Should you find someone on ChatAvenue worth remembering, you can add them to your friend list to stay in touch much better. Simply click on someone’s profile photo, select “Action”, and click “Add friend”. Your friends’ activity will also get posted on your “Friends Wall” so you can keep track of what they are getting up to.

Prices & Costs

Chat Avenue can be used completely free and you never need to pay to join a chat room, add users as friends, or send messages in any of the chat rooms. The site does, however, offer a VIP upgrade for those with registered accounts who want a more exclusive and fun experience. VIP plans vary in length with options for 3 months, 1 year, and lifetime memberships. None of which automatically renew upon expiring. You’ll only receive a private message notification when your plan expires to remind you to renew it should you wish to continue your VIP membership.

The VIP plan for each chat room can vary slightly in the specific features being offered. So always have a look at what each individual room’s VIP plan will include. Click on the three lines on the top-left corner of the screen and select “Buy VIP” from the drop-down menu to upgrade. Below is a general list of the features and perks you can expect:

VIP Features

• Create and admin your own chat room

• Change your username

• Post YouTube videos and images in the chat room

• Use animated background cover images

• Check message history (up to the last history purge)

• Use gradient and neon colors for usernames and text

• Get a diamond icon next to your name

• Quote what others have written

• Get shown at the top of the user list

• Use special drawing features

• Leave voice memos in public or private chats

• No blocks by the internal VPN block system

• Any future VIP features and upgrades

Cost Of VIP Plans

Both VIP and free Chat Avenue users are also able to purchase Gold, the virtual currency on Chat Avenue. Gold allows you to purchase any of the 51 available virtual gifts to send to another member on the site. These are a variety of stickers and the price of each ranges from 50 to 2000 Gold. It’s an inexpensive and fun way to show some appreciation to someone you vibe with. The bigger the Gold package you purchase the cheaper it works out per Gold piece.

Gold Packages

How Safe Is Chat-Avenue.com?

General Safety

Chat Avenue.com might not exactly be synonymous with safety. There are very few measures in place to protect its users. The site uses Cloudflare to make sure that everyone who logs in is a real person and each chat room’s public lobby is moderated live. The adult Chat Avenue rooms also have an 18+ age restriction, but that’s about it. When you are talking to random strangers on a site that is completely free and requires no registration or verification, keeping it safe is pretty much left up to you.

Final Thoughts

#1 Chat Avenue is exactly what you would expect from a 100% free chat platform that’s been going strong since 1999. Join any chat room and talk to random strangers from all over the world. While the webcam chat only redirects you to Coomeet.com, using the text-based rooms can still be a lot of fun. And being able to customize the text colors and font of your username and message text is a nice touch that no other site does anymore.

While online security isn’t exactly great on the site, being able to chat directly with moderators who enforce the chat rules does make it feel a bit more safe. But never let your guard down and share personal information with anyone you don’t know. This is a site where you’ll have to rather stay as anonymous as possible because you never know who is on the other end watching your chats. On the other hand, anonymity might just be a turn-on for some adults who’d like to indulge in Chat Avenue sex chats with online strangers.

FAQ

Who Owns Chat Avenue Now?

It is unclear who owns the Chat Avenue website. Since its initiation in 1999, it’s been a free hosted chat site targeted at the general public. At the moment the site is staffed by 100 volunteer moderators who help enforce #1 Chat Avenue chat room rules.

What Happened To Chat Avenue In 2018?

2018 saw the end of Adobe Flash and Chat Avenue subsequently added new PHP software to overcome these browser restrictions allowing continued access on mobile and tablet devices.

How To Hack Chat-Avenue To Stay Safe Online?

Follow basic online safety measures! Never give out any personal information in public chats where everyone can see what you are saying. Don’t even hesitate to block anyone sending you a private message purely to redirect you elsewhere or try to get any info out of you.

Why Is Chat Avenue Not Working Anymore?

There can be multiple reasons that you are either unable to use the site in general or join any of the chat rooms with an already registered account. These include:

• You used an unsupported email (Proton mail for example will be blocked automatically)

• You have been banned by a moderator or administrator

• Chat Avenue did an update (simply clear your cookies and cache files)

• Your account has been auto-deleted after extended inactivity (simply register again)

• There’s been a service outage (the ChatAvenue blog will post if this happens)

How To Get Unbanned From Chat Avenue Chat Rooms?

If you’ve been kicked or banned from a chat room you can raise a query in one of two ways. Either send a PM to the admin of that room or create a thread on the Chat Avenue forum. Admin details and the information you are required to provide can be found on the very first post of the “How to Raise a Complaint about a Kick or Ban” thread on the site’s forum.

Do I Have To Register Every Time I Go Into A New Chat-Avenue Chat Room?

No, but also yes. You can join any of the 20 chat rooms without needing to register at all. Simply click on the room you want to join, create a nickname, and start chatting. If you do choose to register on the site then you’ll have to do a separate registration and email verification for every room you choose to join.