Chatrooms are a core feature for social entertainment products such as live streaming, voice chat, and interactive shows. They act as the “public screen,” enabling real-time interactions between the audience and the host.
Because chatrooms involve temporary user relationships and a high volume of short, repetitive messages, the primary goal is to keep engagement flowing smoothly. Through its high-availability, high-concurrency architecture and rich feature set, RC IM helps developers build fast, stable, and dynamic chatrooms for any scenario.
Exclusive RC Chatroom Capabilities
RC Chatroom is engineered for massive concurrency. Its stable architecture and intelligent message-distribution engine ensure that messages and attributes are synchronized quickly and reliably—even when user counts surge.
To handle large message volumes, RC also provides exclusive capabilities such as message prioritization, persistent (keep-alive) chatrooms, and flexible attribute settings. These advanced tools give developers greater control over chatroom behavior and performance.
Message Prioritization Strategy
During peak message bursts, low-value messages can overwhelm the channel. RC’s prioritization mechanism ensures that important messages always get through.
- High-priority messages are guaranteed delivery even when discard policies are triggered.
- User whitelists and message-type whitelists ensure that designated messages are never dropped.
This approach ensures a stable and predictable chat experience, even under extreme load.
Keep-Alive Chatroom
By default, a chatroom is destroyed after one hour of inactivity to conserve server resources. For scenarios that require persistence, RC provides a keep-alive option that prevents automatic destruction.
A keep-alive chatroom can only be closed via API, giving developers full control over its lifecycle.
RC also offers flexible configuration options to match different business needs:
- Destroy When Inactive
Suitable for live-streaming rooms. Developers can set the inactivity timeout (default: 1 hour). - Destroy at a Fixed Time
Ideal for events that require strict duration control. The room self-destructs after a fixed period, regardless of activity.
Flexible Chatroom Attributes
RC was the first to introduce a full-featured chatroom Attributes system. This feature manages dynamic room data—such as microphone seat status, user roles, room information, and e-commerce product links.
Key advantages include:
- Support for batch updates
- Configurable persistence or auto-deletion based on user status
- Real-time synchronization with backend servers
- Reduced API-calling overhead during rapid state changes
These capabilities help developers maintain consistent room states while enabling richer business logic.
The RC Advantage
After years of optimization, RC IM leads the industry across several metrics that matter most to developers:
- Extremely low latency
- High concurrency and robust stability
- Clear, developer-friendly documentation
- Self-service developer console
- Wide platform and scenario compatibility
- Flexible and feature-rich chatroom capabilities
Beyond product features, RC provides full-cycle technical support—from integration to live operations. Its mature architecture supports hundreds of millions of concurrent users and delivers hundreds of billions of messages.
The Polaris Monitoring Platform offers real-time, multi-dimensional analytics, enabling teams to track business trends and optimize product strategy. RC’s pricing model is cost-effective and designed to support teams at every stage of growth.
Conclusion
As a foundational component of social entertainment products, RC Chatroom is built to handle the demands of massive real-time interaction. Its high-availability architecture, intelligent message distribution, and exclusive features—such as prioritization strategies, lifecycle controls, and industry-leading real-time attributes—set it apart from conventional solutions.
Combined with proven stability (SDK crash rate < 0.005%), full technical support, and real-time monitoring via the Polaris platform, RC offers a superior solution for developers. With flexible, tiered pricing, RC has become the preferred chatroom provider for entertainment and e-commerce live-streaming platforms, helping teams build smoother, richer, and more scalable user experiences.
