Video chat and text chat rooms are not the same product
Search for a way to talk to strangers and the results mix two different things: chat rooms, where a crowd shares one space, and random one-to-one matching, where you get exactly one person. They get described in the same words and they do not behave alike.
A room is many-to-many and it persists
A chat room is a place. It has a name, some regulars, a scroll of things said before you arrived, and it is still there tomorrow.
Because everyone can see everything, conversation happens in public and you are competing for attention with everyone else typing.
That suits some people very well. If you like a space you can return to and be recognised in, a room is the right shape and no amount of video will replace it.
A match is one-to-one and it is temporary
Random matching gives you one person, and when it ends there is nothing to come back to. Nobody else is watching, so there is no audience to play to.
With one person and no gallery, there is nobody to play to, and the shortest route into a conversation is usually just talking.
It also makes a bad match cheap. Skip, and you are back in the queue immediately, with nothing left behind to be awkward about.
Where video changes things again
Text hides almost everything, which is both its appeal and its problem.
Video narrows it, though not in the way people often assume. It does not verify anybody: a person on camera can still tell you anything they like about their name, age or situation, and cameras can be faked. What it does show is how the conversation is actually going — whether someone is present and paying attention, or typing at you from three other tabs.
The cost is that video asks the same of you — camera on, in whatever room you happen to be sitting in. That is why the mode is chosen before the match rather than sprung on you during it.
What FunChatt actually is
One-to-one, not rooms. There are three separate queues — video, voice and text — and you pick one before you connect, so the person you meet chose the same thing you did.
The text queue is worth describing precisely, because the word "text" makes people expect a room: a text match opens a one-to-one message thread with a single person. There is no shared space, no member list watching, no history from before you arrived.
Matching is random. There is no filter for gender, country, language or interests, and nothing you browsed earlier feeds into who you get. There is a separate directory of members you can look through, but that is a different feature from the queue and does not feed it.
Which one you actually want
If you want somewhere to come back to, with people who recognise you, that is a room, and a good one is worth finding.
If you want a conversation now, with someone you have never met, without building a reputation first, that is what one-to-one matching is for.