It’s a good question. If I was choosing, it would be chat.
I’ve thought about the archiving to the topic solution. Would really prefer the two working together as really one conversation.
Right now chat is much lighter population wise for me and that’s because I lost people in the community to a discord community that started up during the time babble was having issues and before chat was added.
I see the two interfaces to one conversation as a way to also potentially help me get back some of what I lost as well.