DevRoulette pairs developers who are waiting on long-running tasks into an anonymous, ephemeral text chat. By using it you agree to the terms below. If you don't agree, don't use it.
DevRoulette is for adults (18 or older). You are chatting with random, anonymous strangers. We do not vet other users and cannot control what they say or do. Use your judgment and never share sensitive information.
No illegal content, harassment, hate speech, threats, doxxing, sexual content
involving minors, spam, or commercial solicitation. If someone misbehaves, use
the in-chat /report command. Abusers are rate-limited and their IP
address is temporarily banned. We may block access to keep the service usable.
Messages are never stored or logged. Rooms exist only in server memory and are destroyed the moment a chat ends, a task finishes, or a socket disconnects. There are no accounts, no profiles, no message history, and we do not sell or share personal data.
For anti-abuse purposes only, the server processes IP addresses in memory to enforce rate limits and temporary bans. This is the minimum needed to keep the service from being flooded. IP addresses are not persisted to a database and are not used to track or profile you. (This disclosure is provided for GDPR/CCPA-style transparency.)
The chat may display a single line of sponsored content. We are not responsible for advertisers' products, claims, or the destinations of advertiser links. Visiting an advertiser link is at your own discretion.
All chat content is created by users, not by us. The service is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for anything other users say or do, for any loss arising from your use of the service, or for interruptions and errors.
We may update these terms; the "Effective date" above reflects the latest version. Continued use after a change means you accept it.