# Babble Chat

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-chat/87297
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** broken
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-chat/87297 "2018-05-11T22:08:04Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-chat/87297/397 "2021-01-21T22:47:55Z")

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> [@JoelZaslofsky](#):
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> Wait a moment. Are you saying, time allowing, that you’re going to fix future Babble bugs out of the goodness of your heart? Because that’s what I _think_ (or maybe just hope) you’re saying.

Pavilion, our non-profit cooperative, exists for three purposes (these are taken directly from a new set of articles of association I’m in the process of registering)

> 1. provide opportunities for work, education and related services to providers of services and products to online communities;
> 2. facilitate the provision of services and products, and the development of open source technology, for the benefit of online communities; and
> 3. pursue socioeconomic diversity amongst the recipients of the benefits and opportunities in objects (a) and (b).

This is what we do 🙂 We’re currently building a new website that explains this better (and I’ll be releasing a big new open source landing pages plugin for discourse alongside it).

> [@JoelZaslofsky](#):
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> Thanks for fixing the issue with the constantly spinning wheel icon in the chat when you post something. The only bigger outstanding UX issue I can think of right now is that the icon letting you know there’s a new message in the chat never goes away, even after reading all messages. @TheBaby5 gave the [high-level overview of that one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/87297/382).
> 
> I just did a quick test and @ninermac’s [bug report](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/87297/378) from October 20 doesn’t seem like an issue on our Discourse install.

Thanks for these notes. Ideally, if those folks could submit bug reports: [Pavilion](http://thepavilion.io/w/bug-report), then I’ll be able to action them systematically over time.

> [@JoelZaslofsky](#):
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> I’m no developer

We need you just as much as a developer 🙂. Here’s some Babble knowledge management that needs doing:

1. Update the first post in this topic to better reflect the current state of the plugin (it’s a wiki). Take a look at the custom wizard plugin OP for an [example structure](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-wizard-plugin/73345).

2. Create a “How to setup Babble” topic in the knowledge category I set up: [Pavilion](https://thepavilion.io/c/knowledge/plugins/babble/186).

3. Create a “How to customise Babble” topic in that category. @REALITY That would be the place for your useful CSS suggestion, which unfortunately, will otherwise be lost in the mega-topic.

Don’t worry about writing “the wrong thing”. If you make a mistake, or what you write is unclear, others (such as myself) will help you correct it. That’s the beauty of being part of an open source community.

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