Mechanics
How BuzzChat works
No pitch on this page, just the mechanics. How you get matched, what happens inside a conversation, what your identity actually consists of, how points are calculated, and what the platform keeps.
- Matching
- Identity
- Points
- Moderation
Everything described here works without an account. An account only adds persistence.
How anonymous chat matching works
Most matches start in a queue. You can also meet someone by exploring World Mode. Either way, you end up in a private chat with one other person.
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Step 01
You choose how you want to meet
Instant Match pairs you with the next person waiting and ignores preference filters. Smart Match waits for someone inside the preferences you have set. Or explore the World Mode map, see who is online, and start a private chat when someone says hi back.
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Step 02
The server pairs you
For queue matching, pairing happens server-side and honours blocks, people you have already skipped, existing friends and your rematch cooldown, so the same person does not immediately come back around.
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Step 03
A private room opens for two
Exactly two people. Nobody can join a session in progress and nobody can observe one. There is no spectator mode and no group variant of a random match.
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Step 04
Either side can leave, at any moment
Leaving needs no reason and sends no explanation. Your rematch cooldown then governs how soon you and that same person can be randomly matched again: no cooldown, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours, whichever you set. You can rejoin the queue immediately and meet someone else.
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Step 05
Continuing is opt-in, and mutual
A friend request that both people accept turns the session into a DM thread that survives closing the tab. Decline it, or ignore it, and the conversation ends with the session.
What happens during an anonymous conversation
A session is deliberately small in scope. These are the things it can actually do.
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Text, images and GIFs
That is the full set for a random session. You can reply to a specific message and nudge someone with a buzz. Voice notes and video attachments exist elsewhere in BuzzChat, but not here.
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They see a nickname
No real name, no email, no precise location. A country flag appears only if you have chosen to show one.
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Images are checked first
Every image runs through automated moderation before the other person sees it. Content involving minors is blocked outright rather than delivered and reviewed later.
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Leaving costs nothing
No penalty, no rating, no notification framing it as a rejection. Blocking and reporting stay available during the session and after it.
Anonymous identity, and what claiming an account changes
You can use BuzzChat without ever creating an account. Claiming one does not make you public; it gives your progress somewhere durable to live.
| What matters | Anonymous session | Claimed account |
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| What it needs | A nickname. Nothing else. | A nickname plus an email address, used only for recovery. |
| What other users see | A nickname, and a country flag if you enable one. | The same. Claiming an account changes nothing others can see. |
| If you change device | Friends, DMs, posts, points and streak are gone. There is nothing durable holding them. | Everything comes back when you sign in. |
| What behaviour attaches to | The account, not the nickname. | The account, not the nickname. |
| Changing your nickname | Allowed, and it is a display change only. | Allowed. Points, level, streak, vibe reputation and moderation history all stay with you. |
How chat points are earned
Every action that earns points has its own daily ceiling, and there is a single global ceiling across all of them.
| Action | Points | Daily cap |
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| Chat message | 2 | 100 |
| Hive room message | 2 | 100 |
| Direct message | 1 | 80 |
| Post | 15 | 90 |
| Comment | 5 | 100 |
| Like given | 1 | 40 |
| Reaction received | 3 | 150 |
| Game played | 10 | 120 |
| Daily streak bonus | 20 | Once per day |
A global cap of 600 points per day sits above all of it, and days run on UTC. A streak continues only if you earned points the previous day; miss one and it restarts at 1. Levels are points thresholds, running from New Spark at 0 to Anonymous Icon at 8,000.
Worth knowing
Why the caps exist
Without a ceiling, the winning strategy on any points system is volume, and volume in a chat product is spam. Caps make farming pointless without constraining anyone using the product normally: reaching the global daily cap takes sustained real participation, and no amount of extra messages beyond it earns anything. A level therefore records months of showing up rather than one very energetic afternoon.
BuzzChat moderation, from report to outcome
Two layers run in parallel: automated checks on content as it is sent, and human review of what people report.
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Automated checks run first
Images are inspected before delivery. Anything involving minors is blocked and quarantined rather than delivered.
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You report, and you can block immediately
Blocking is unilateral and instant. It does not wait on a review, and the other person is not told.
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A human reviews the case
Reports become cases that a moderator works through. Reviewers see the reported exchange, which is why the platform has to be able to read it.
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The outcome attaches to the account
Depending on severity: dismissal, content removal, a warning, or a ban. Because consequences follow the account, a new nickname does not reset them.
What is stored
- Random chat messages
- Kept so reports stay reviewable. You get no archive of them and cannot reopen an ended session.
- DM threads
- Kept, and shown back to you. They are the part of BuzzChat designed to persist.
- Encryption
- Encrypted in transit, not end-to-end. Reviewing a report requires the platform to read it.
- Location
- Approximate country only, and only if you show it. Precise location is never collected.
When a session ends
The room closes for both people. Neither of you can reopen it, and neither of you keeps a copy: an ended random session is not listed anywhere in the app, and there is no history view that brings it back. If you did not send a friend request, the other person becomes unreachable at that moment.
What does not happen is deletion. Messages from anonymous sessions remain stored so that a report filed afterwards can still be investigated, which is the same trade described above: a platform that can act on abuse is a platform that can read what was said. The privacy policy is the authoritative statement of retention periods, and where it and this page differ, it governs.
Quick answers
Questions people actually ask
The short version of the questions people usually need answered before they begin.
Do I need an account to use BuzzChat?
Not to chat. Matching, World Mode, Hives and posting all work from an anonymous session with just a nickname. An account only exists so friends, DMs, posts, points and your streak survive changing device.
What is the difference between Instant Match and Smart Match?
Instant Match takes the next person in the queue and ignores your preference filters, which is why it is faster. Smart Match waits for someone who fits the preferences you set, which is why it is slower, and slower still the narrower those preferences are.
How are chat points earned?
From messages, posts, comments, likes given, reactions received and games played, each with its own daily cap, plus a 20-point streak bonus on your first points-earning action of a new day. A global cap of 600 points a day sits above all of it.
Does changing my nickname reset anything?
No. Points, level, streak, vibe reputation, friends, DMs and moderation history are attached to the account. A nickname is a display choice, not a clean slate.
Are my anonymous chats saved?
Not for you. There is no history view and no way to reopen an ended session. They are retained on the platform so that a report can be investigated after the fact, and they are not end-to-end encrypted, because a moderator has to be able to read a reported exchange.
What is my vibe?
A reputation derived from how you treat people across conversations, held against your account rather than your nickname. It rises on consistent signals and falls more slowly than it rises, so one quiet chat does not define you.
Keep exploring
Where to go next
Smart matching
The two matching modes in detail, and how to set preferences without waiting forever.
Open page →
Safety centre
Blocking, reporting and what moderation does when something goes wrong.
Open page →
Anonymous chat
Where anonymity holds here, and the specific points where it stops.
Open page →
Profiles, friends and DMs
What claiming an account gives you, and how friendship works.
Open page →