I would like to have discourse chat to allow anonymous and guest visitors to PMs, and communicate in public and private group channels.
This is going to create a huge engagement for each community.
Here is the sample site which is using anonymous chat which is bringing great engagement point of view
https://talkwithstranger.com/chat-rooms
You can see the power of anonymous and logged out guest chat that users love to participate in.
This feature should also allow anonymous uses to participate in audio and video voice calls send voice messages file uploads etc. of course the moderators should be able to mute and ban and spam or rate limit the anonymous or logged in visitors who are participating in the chat channels DMs or public channels.
I would really love to see this feature integrated in discourse chat official plugin, to let anonymous uses participate in the chat exactly as a logged in visitor.
Also I have a question is the discourse chat plugin compatible to handle concurrent online users of up to 5,000+ or 10,000+?
Perhaps you guys should make use of node js and socket.io software behind the scenes to handle high traffic on chat plugin.