Hey guys, given the most recent breaking changes, and a few other related technical challenges posed for Babble in the current version of the Discourse codebase, unfortunately I’ve decided it’s not feasible to continue support babble at this stage. So this is being moved to #plugin:broken-plugin.
Believe me, I wish it were otherwise, and was hoping as such until the last few months of core Discourse changes which will require significant changes to Babble to get it working again. I’ve been actively looking for a more dedicated maintainer of the plugin, however there are two issues there. Chat is a difficult use case, and Babble is a complicated plugin. It requires an in-depth knowledge of Discourse itself, as well as Rails and Ember, and dedicated blocks of time to keep up with the changes in Discourse.
I would recommend you consider using a seperate dedicated chat instance alongside Discourse for your community. If you have any questions about setting that up or what to use, I’d be happy to give you some advice on that (for free). At Pavilion we use Mattermost alongside Discourse, which works well for us.