Hi chatters,

It’s been a busy week for chat channels and we’ve got another update for you. 

As of September 12, new user chat channel creation will be paused. This means that no one will be able to make a new user chat channel. 

Existing user chat channels, subreddit chat channel creation, and subreddit chat channels won’t be impacted. 

The TL;DR is that users are excited to create chat channels. However, the downside is that with so much interest in creating channels, we’re pausing to make sure our bad activity detection and automation tools are sufficient to identify and stop bad actors that are breaking our content policies. Until then, we’re halting user chat channel creation to 0%. 

Hope you all understand and we’ll keep you updated on user chat channel creation.