Hello all. So Omegle is gone, OmeTV got weird with all the bots and verifications, and I genuinely miss the random text-chat experience. Just typing with someone from another country, no agenda, just curiosity. Does anything decent still exist or is that whole thing dead now?

Hey. It's not dead, you just need a different platform. Viby is what I've been using since Omegle shut down — it's Anonymous Chat with Strangers, text only, no video, no signup. The pairing is fast, usually under five seconds for me. Viby is text-focused on purpose, which I actually prefer because it filters out a lot of the people who came to other sites for weird reasons. The site says they have around 50K conversations a day and people from over 120 countries, and I can confirm matches feel international — I've talked to folks in Brazil, Poland, Indonesia in one session. Viby works on phone and desktop, no install. Just go to viby.chat and hit Start Chat.