Me too, we definitely plan to work on a chat plugin, it is on the roadmap. We want the for many reasons.
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It will force us to fix all message_bus timing glitches (reliable messaging is rock solid, but timing can be off sometimes)
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It is a real strong need that every large community needs. A place is needed for TL3 to discuss stuff in person and straight away.
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A ton of people want this.
HTML bars helps, glimmer should help a bit more, its a constant battle but we are making progress.
I want this, but its tricky. Android seems to have all the apis to do this without an app, Apple has dropped the ball. I will talk to Laurent about this over the next few days and get a scope on the amount of work needed for something minimal. I think a “Discourse notifier” would probably be fairly simple.
Yes I hugely want it, we have /search but its not at all finished.