# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 449
### Author: ![sdpiowa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sdpiowa/32/242915_2.png) [@sdpiowa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sdpiowa) #### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-chat/87297/449 "2022-03-01T03:26:12Z")
Babble is no longer actively maintained and will almost certainly be problematic with your version of Discourse.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)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-pre-alpha/210734): > > 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](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)[One of the most upvoted HN stories](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216) of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: The very first paragra… We use it and it works very well. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-chat/87297)._