While many video chat sites are seeing their numbers deplete, Shufflepeople continues to see its userbase grow.
This is partly due to Shufflepeople’s ability to handle a large simultaneous user base participating in webcam chat at the same time. Chatroulette users experienced many technical problems during the first few months the platform was gaining popularity. The site had a difficult time keeping up with the rapid user growth over a short period of time.
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Scalability is an issue that any website planning to cater to a large population of people online needs to prepare for. Going viral, become insanely popular over a very short period of time, could happen to any website, potentially. When a site is not prepared to handle a growth increase of the viral nature, the site will crash, putting the business in danger of losing this sustained growth unless they can revive the site quickly.
Shufflepeople was founded by the developers of WooMe, a video chat online dating website. The lessons learned managing a successful video chat website were applied to the creation of Shufflepeople, coupling both technology and marketing techniques to make a bring Shufflepeople into the forefront of the video chat community.
All video chat sites are still struggling with cleaning up some of the lewd behavior that continues to run rampant, however, as the sites become more stable there is more room for creative strategies that will launch what is currently a very simple video chat experience into something far more engaging, entertaining and useful for all.
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