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Building a safe and respectful group chat experience is more important than ever, especially in online gaming communities where conversations can scale quickly. A dedicated group moderator can make this easier by enforcing community standards, reducing toxic behavior, and keeping discussions welcoming for everyone. With Stream’s AI Moderation built into the Chat API, moderation becomes

For any community app, safety is non-negotiable. Toxic interactions can derail conversations, drive away users, and damage retention. But for smaller, fast-growing companies, building the kind of human moderation teams that Facebook or TikTok employ simply isn’t feasible. The Challenge of Moderation at Scale Walkie Talkie, a global social audio app for Gen Z, faced

As 2026 approaches, our teams are laser-focused on delivering features that make Stream’s real-time communication APIs even faster, smarter, and easier to build with. From long-awaited analytics tools to real-time moderation capabilities, this quarter’s roadmap introduces big steps forward across all four products: Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video. Below is a detailed look at what’s

From Patreon to Peloton to Match Dating Apps, activity feeds are at the core of every modern digital experience. They keep content fresh, surface relevant updates, and transform passive users into active communities. Stream’s Activity Feeds API makes it easy to bring that same engagement engine into your app, without spending months building complex infrastructure

The digital landscape evolves every day; platforms are no longer judged solely by the quality of their features or the size of their communities. They are held accountable for the safety of the content they host. Governments worldwide are introducing sweeping regulations that raise the stakes for every online platform, from global social networks to

When the team at Partiful first discussed adding chat, they weren’t sure they wanted to do it at all. "We felt like messaging was a really hard space," recalls Amadou Camara, Product Engineer at Partiful. "There’s iMessage, there’s Messenger. We didn’t want to just build another platform for people to message when they can already

Vision Agents is a new, open-source framework from Stream that helps developers quickly build low-latency vision AI applications. The project is completely open-source and ships with over ten out-of-the-box integrations, including day one support for leading real-time voice and video models like OpenAI Realtime and Gemini Live. Text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and speech-to-speech models are also natively

Social messaging apps like Snapchat have unique ways of keeping users engaged daily while helping friends and loved ones stay connected. Features like real-time messaging and friendship streaks have become key elements of that experience. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Snapchat-style app using Next.js, Firebase, and the Stream Chat SDK. We’ll