Babble Chat

[sdpiowa (Stephen Peterson)]

Babble is no longer actively maintained and will almost certainly be problematic with your version of Discourse.

I’d recommend taking a look at this new, official plugin that’s in active development:

Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA)

Three years ago we published a blog post about how Discourse and the long-form forum paradigm can co-exist with the short-form chat paradigm: This kind of tooling mashup works, but it has some flaws. You end up with: Duplicate user directories Competing forms of private messaging “Where does this message belong?” uncertainty Poorly integrated tools for content gardening One of the most upvoted HN stories of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: https://www.mooreds.com…

We use it and it works very well.