# Discourse Chat vs Chat Integration plugins

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat-integration, chat
**Created:** [October 17, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169 "2022-10-17T23:06:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![P2W](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/p2w/32/304345_2.png) [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/1 "2022-10-17T23:06:36Z")

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I turned on chat. Do I also need to enable an 0auth with one of the various providers for it to work?

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### Author: ![khenmu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/khenmu/32/108976_2.png) [@khenmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/khenmu)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/2 "2022-10-17T23:18:12Z")

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No, that shouldn’t be necessary. Are you on `stable`, `beta`, or `tests-passed`, @P2W? I ask as Chat is presently only compatible with the tests-passed branch.

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### Author: ![P2W](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/p2w/32/304345_2.png) [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/3 "2022-10-18T00:02:15Z")

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Discourse 2.9.0.beta10  
When I enable chat, I don’t see anything.

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### Author: ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/4 "2022-10-18T01:53:33Z")

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Hi Mike. 👋

> [@P2W](#):
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> Do I also need to enable an 0auth with one of the various providers for it to work?

I think you might be thinking about [Discourse Chat Integrations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-integration/66522), which is a plugin that integrates with external chat services. They are named similarly, and even show up near each other on plugins list:

 ![Screenshot 2022-10-17 at 18-49-10 Admin - fnord](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/c/5/dc5c6c37cdabfa38e5c9091f389d3b0e2403a7d8.png)

When you enable Discourse Chat, which chat in your Discourse community, you’ll see the setting as such:

 ![Screenshot 2022-10-17 at 18-49-32 Admin - fnord](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/5/6/85621334f8f25def7eba335cf979781c9741e303.png)

Let us know if that clarifies; the Discourse Chat plugin should be very easy to configure, no 0Auth required. 🙂

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### Author: ![P2W](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/p2w/32/304345_2.png) [@P2W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P2W)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/5 "2022-10-18T02:05:43Z")

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> [@maiki](#):
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> community

That helps, easy to mistake the two. Appreciate it.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-vs-chat-integration-plugins/242169/6 "2022-11-17T02:05:51Z")

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