Reddit rolls back chat room feature a day after its launch

Reddit on Thursday rolled back its chat room feature “Start Chatting” after drawing flak from users.

Reddit users had flooded the Reddit announcement post hours after the release on Wednesday expressing their frustration and confusion over the feature.

Many also pointed out that certain vulnerable groups were able to see the feature within their subreddits with moderators being unable to remove the feature.

Alex Le, VP of product at Reddit, on Thursday shared an announcement stating that the social media platform was completely rolling back its feature owing to the feedback.