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As advised here I navigated to https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/new and I put my question and the relative site. After pressing Next, the following screen appeared:

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I have reputation 1, if that matters. Yesterday I asked a question, and I was advised to create a room for this question as it was too broad, so I deleted it. I don't know if this matters.

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  • The something bad happened message is odd, - it might be nice to have a more obvious error message if that's the case. I'm also not sure if SO rep counts for being able to chat on the 'main' chat server.
    – Journeyman Geek
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:04
  • Meta has its own chat server and I'm not sure if meta counts for the main chat either....
    – Journeyman Geek
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:27
  • I tried to create a room with stack overflow where I have reputation 41, and I got the same error
    – newbie coder
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:38
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    @newbiecoder that's because, as the answer clearly states, you need 100.
    – Tinkeringbell Mod
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:52
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    Why are you creating a room instead of choosing a chat room with an appropriate topic and asking for help from the people in there?
    – ColleenV
    Mar 5, 2021 at 14:15
  • The "advise" you saw on MSO is very bad. I added a comment in there.
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 6, 2021 at 7:46

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The title of your post says you can't create a chatroom on Software Engineering, which would be correct.

Seeing that you can't create a new chatroom unless you earn 100 reputation. This is documented in the /privileges page of each site. The link can be found in the top right corner of your achievements.

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To participate in chat you need 20 reputation.

Also when creating a chatroom it is not always obvious that you are creating it on a different Stack Exchange site. If you opt to create a chatroom it will default to creating it on Stack Overflow (in my case). You can select the community you want it associated with as per screenshot:

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  • Thanks for your answer. "First, enter a chat room — they're all public by default. You may enter and read the conversation in any room, but you may not talk until you earn 20 reputation." - I was able to talk in different rooms, but I have problem creating one. Thats why I am confused
    – newbie coder
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:14
  • I am sorry, I did so - I selected software engineering; I also I tried to create a room with stack overflow where I have reputation 41, but I got the same error message
    – newbie coder
    Mar 5, 2021 at 13:39

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