# Default Chat Channel

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-chat-channel/387112>\
**Category:** Theme component\
**Created:** [October 29, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-chat-channel/387112 "2025-10-29T19:57:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-chat-channel/387112/6 "2026-02-14T11:51:47Z")

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I tested this component today and encountered the following issue: the Chat window frequently pops up in the admin panel, even after I have closed it before switching pages. Currently, I can almost consistently trigger the chat window to open in full-screen mode by clicking the `Customize / Text` link on the `/admin/config/localization` page of my self-hosted server. After closing it, I am returned to the website’s homepage instead of the page that the `Customize / Text` link pointed to.

The Discourse version I am using when encountering this issue is 2026.2.0-latest (50e774b49d), and the component version is 2025.10.30.

> ## 📝 Note
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> Additional information: According to my incomplete statistics, under otherwise identical conditions, the probability of encountering this issue with the _Horizon_ theme is significantly higher than with the _Foundation_ theme. In more than ten consecutive tests with the latter, the chat window did not pop up in the admin panel, nor did clicking `Customize / Text` open the chat window.

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