# Does anyone use chat on their site?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-anyone-use-chat-on-their-site/315051
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [July 4, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-anyone-use-chat-on-their-site/315051 "2024-07-04T22:12:39Z")
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### Author: ![c12gene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/c12gene/32/181974_2.png) [@c12gene](https://meta.discourse.org/u/c12gene)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-anyone-use-chat-on-their-site/315051/1 "2024-07-04T22:12:39Z")

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I want to integrate a chat room, then I realized discourse comes with a chat room, then I realized it’s not very good. For example, I tried to use it here in meta and I can’t make sense of it.

For one, how do I add a channel? If a channel exists, it should be smacking me in the head to add it! This is confusing.

 ![iScreen Shoter - Google Chrome - 240704150910](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/e/c/bec93022289aed3af16413f4e6dc4ef16ca7a246.jpeg)

I’ve overlooked this feature because it’s hard on the eyes. I literally blocked it out of my mind. lol. Are there any better chats out there that integrate well with discourse or can the default chat be improved to work better? **How are people supposed to find chat rooms? How do you know when people are online?** I changed the word channels to chat rooms because channel is confusing. Even discourse uses chat and channel interchangeably in the above screen shot…Channels really should be chat rooms, or rooms, or chat channels. IMHO.

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