The code is disabled in the admin settings but would prefer to not waste any bits loading this plugin which we don’t plan to use. Could not find any Discourse config parameter to disable this plugin from being loaded when the container is built (now we can only disable, but the plugin code is loade…

It’s possible to put an rm -rf chat in your app.yml, but I don’t recommend it for all of the reasons mentioned already, so if you want to do that you’ll need to look at some other examples of how to run commands in your app.yml.

You could always use an old, unsupported version of discourse which doesn’t have the chat functionality built in, although I don’t think the security risks would be worth removing the chat function.

[image] Victor B.: prefer to not waste any bits loading this plugin What bits? After disabling the plugin on the admin UI we stop loading the plugin JS, so no bits are wasted on the transfer.

How to remove the Discourse chat plugin completely from an install

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crcoli7307 January 5, 2023, 5:25pm 2

I don’t believe there is a way to disable the setting in any other way than with the check box in the admin panel.

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How to remove the Discourse chat plugin completely from an install

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