# Chat-like forums - open topic to the right from the list of topics

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**Created:** [January 6, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-like-forums-open-topic-to-the-right-from-the-list-of-topics/290722 "2024-01-06T10:46:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-like-forums-open-topic-to-the-right-from-the-list-of-topics/290722/12 "2024-01-08T17:40:59Z")

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One of our talented designers, @chapoi voiced this idea late last year.

This is definitely something we have toyed around playing with in a theme component. I’d go further and say this isn’t _just_ a chat specific feature as well. The other large software using this design is Notion, which is based primarily on document/topic structure that forums tend to use.

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