Users can only write in such Live Chats with administrator approval. You can create read-only channels that are accessible to all users: it’s practically like making your own blog in ICQ. The new ICQ has a separate tab with a list of Live Chats. By the way, the catalogue adjusts individually to each user and depends on their status, interests and the Live Chats their friends are in. If you make your chatroom public, it appears in the Live Chats catalogue, where it can be seen by other users. Now anyone who wants can create one: just provide a title, picture, description and rules, and assign moderators. Live Chats can host over ten thousand participants, and some that big already exist.

In the new ICQ they’re called Live Chats: huge, endless chatrooms on different topics accessible to any user. Remember chatrooms? Those big ones, where you could simply join, talk to everyone and make new friends? Some messaging providers have been trying to test them, but ICQ already has them. This means all your conversations will remain strictly confidential: the encryption works by default on all calls without any additional setup. Going into detail, voice and video calls are encrypted in the updated versions of ICQ by means of a reliable ZRTP-based algorithm, thanks to a new VoIP engine. The new ICQ has end-to-end encryption on all calls, making it the first messenger in the world to provide encrypted video communication for all countries. They are accessible on all the basic platforms: Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.

Calls automatically adapt to the quality of your internet connection and work well on Wi-Fi and 3G networks. During the call you can change between front and rear cameras, go into speakerphone mode or turn off your device’s microphone.

And if you turn on your camera your call will shift from voice to video. Just make one click in the dialogue window to make a call. Genuine communication is impossible without audio or video.

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