Chat rooms, topics, and evergreen topics

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

We are coming full circle on this, as mentioned

@codinghorror

My current thinking is we should build a live chat feature and instantiate it just-in-time, when you have…

• lots of users
• in the same topic
• at the same time
• then, and only then , instantiate a live chat box overlay and strongly push users into using that instead of replies, maybe even disable the ability to reply to the topic with

Hey, it looks like what you really wanted was a chatroom… here it is, have fun!

@riking is leading the experiments, and we are alpha testing. It’ll be a bit, we want to get it right and have time to play and test.