As you have likely already discovered, LensChat has had a major upgrade as we come to the end of May 2025. Our previous chat software version was years out of date. It was requiring us to maintain an older server configuration with older plugins that were not compatible with the newer versions. The time finally […]

Some of you may have noticed that new users were not allowed to register for accounts at LensChat for a while. We were receiving hundreds of robot user registrations that were just trying to spam the site and never logged in. We have now implemented a system that will require Account Activation (the link will […]

It was brought to our attention that the Hearing Loss channel wasn't working properly, and that even if people were in the room they never showed up on the home page as being present. These issues have now been corrected. If you spot any other problems feel free to leave some feedback.

There is now a new Update User Profile page that will allow you to add a short biography if you want one, as well as update your password or email address for password resets, etc. Email addresses are NOT shown on public profiles.

When you are in a chat, if you click on a users name a new window will open with their user profile. Users can edit their User Profile and add their Biographical Info if they would like it displayed to other chat users.

The home page design of the site has been transitioned from plain text to a design made up of tiles for each individual chat room. The current occupants of each room are now listed at the bottom of the tiles.

After a few days of testing, no major issues were detected so the site was transitioned to be the live site as development continued.

After many months of testing, the new site was launched in test mode on December 24, 2020.