# Chat on a topic test!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-on-a-topic-test/211024>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-on-a-topic-test/211024 "2021-12-03T16:01:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-on-a-topic-test/211024/6 "2022-01-27T16:03:19Z")

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> [@debryc](#):
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> I think a “Reply via Chat” or “Open Topic Chat” below the post would be very helpful. I didn’t find it intuitive to click on the chat icon next to the topic title.

It was even more confusing to me that the speech bubbles icon isn’t clickable in the topics list.

I opened the topic, and when hovering the icon on the title, the cursor changed to a pointer one.  
I assumed that it was part of the topic title (which confused me since I couldn’t click on the topics list, as I said…), but it opened the chat when clicking on it.

I think as well that the chat-linked feature should be way more obvious.

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