# Best chat integration for a Forum breakout

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-chat-integration-for-a-forum-breakout/174079
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-chat-integration-for-a-forum-breakout/174079 "2020-12-23T06:53:07Z")
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### Author: ![sunjam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sunjam/32/175682_2.png) [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-chat-integration-for-a-forum-breakout/174079/3 "2020-12-24T22:53:35Z")

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Absolutely, you add the chat-integration plugin, then set your conditions between categories and tags to notify to any number of chat services. This works totally awesome for our community. Different levels of customization are available for various chat services supported. Enjoy, and happy holidays.

> [@Discourse Chat Integrations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522/):
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> information_source Chat Integration is for using an external chat system together with Discourse — you may be looking for [Discourse Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881) which adds Chat functionality directly to Discourse. discourse2Summaryopen_bookInstall Guide The Discourse Chat Integration plugin lets you send messages in your preferred chat platform when something happens in Discourse. Messages can be triggered by: New topics New replies Messages to a group Mentions of a group Functio…

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