Category Archives: Chatroom News

News related to events happening in House of Travis

Custom Colors Return!

We have decided to re-enable custom colors in our chatroom. Your nickname can now be any color you wish again.
We just ask that people please don’t abuse the custom colors by making super-bright usernames which people can’t read.

Chatzy Premium Renewed

As there has been strong support for keeping the current Chatzy chatroom for now, we have decided to renew our premium membership with them. PM’s, Chat History, and all features are now available again for our users.

The Great Chat-System debate

As you may know, Chatzy.com are no longer maintaining their website or chat system. There are now multiple issues affecting our chatroom which are not being addressed, so we have chosen so far NOT to renew our premium membership with them.
This decision means chat history and personal messaging are no longer available, and the room is limited to 10 people at once.
There is now debate over what chat-system we should use moving forward into the future. Do we stay with Chatzy until they shut down unexpectedly one day? Or do we move to another chat service? Have your say in the poll below.

Advertising Stalled

Due to our advertiser’s new ISP having a fairly static IP address, advertising on Omegle has now stalled due to their ban system and being unable to reset IP addresses. VPN’s have also proved ineffective due to Omegle banning all VPN IP ranges.
Due to this we will be establishing a social media presence near the end of the year to continue advertising, while also looking into restoring Omegle advertising through the use of a second ISP with dynamic IP addresses for evading the ban system in early 2023.
Thank you to everyone for being so patient, and we will endeavour to increase our membership slowly over the next year.

The HAPPYG Exodus

The unbanning of HAPPYG today by Travis caused great upset amongst some of our users and moderators over the consistency of bans. There has been an exodus event of roughly 5-6 of our users, who have either been banned or have fled the chat, along with some fighting and drama.
CupKate and Spaz have both been demoted from their moderator positions.
We apologize to our remaining users for the drama.

Advertising restored

Our advertising capabilities have now been restored ahead of schedule. We hope everyone enjoys chatting with some new people.
If you’ve just arrived from Omegle, click the Chat link on the site menu to join us, no sign-ups required.

Vincenzo promoted to Moderator!

Old member Vincenzo is back! For those who may not remember him, he’s one of the first users of House of Travis, invited 5 years ago by Travis himself. Since he always wanted to be a moderator, he has been promoted for his long service to the chat. Welcome back Vincenzo!

Temporary disruption to advertising

There will be a temporary disruption to our advertising abilities from August 1st until August 7th at the earliest. You may notice a reduced number of new users in the chat for a week or so. This is due to one of our members relocating.