Half the fun is the gap between what you expect and who actually shows up. Seychelles anchors this page, but East Africa is a big place, and South Sudan and Rwanda are part of the same pool of strangers waiting to connect.
You will not need a translation app for Seychelles. English is the working language, and the only real adjustment is tuning your ear to an unfamiliar accent for the first minute or two.
Seychelles sits at UTC+4. That means 8pm there lines up with 11am in New York and 5pm in Lagos, so a little timing turns a quiet queue into a busy one.
Nothing at all. Random matching, video, voice and text are open to everyone in Seychelles, whether the conversation runs in English or English, and there is no trial that expires or premium tier holding back the useful parts.
Signing up is not part of it. Anyone in Seychelles can open the page and chat anonymously in English or English; the age confirmation is the only box to tick, and nothing you type becomes an account.
Seychelles uses English day to day, so the language question mostly disappears. Accents shift noticeably around East Africa, and asking someone to repeat a phrase is a decent conversation starter rather than an embarrassment.
Late evening tends to work best. Seychelles sits at UTC+4, so 8pm there is 11am on a New York clock and 5pm on a Lagos one — chats in that window usually run past the first question.