# Does anyone use chat on their site? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-anyone-use-chat-on-their-site/315051/8 "2024-07-04T23:50:24Z")
> [@Kartoon](#): > > You can’t add a channel here because you don’t run the site? It would be pretty silly to allow thousands of people to make their own public channels for the site. You can add a personal DM by clicking the + in the DM section, however… Yeah at the moment we have it hardcoded so you must be staff to create channels. I think there is a legit feature request here to allow expanding this to a wider group, that way you could delegate trust to a wider group of people to create channels. That said: > [@c12gene](#): > > I’m in the chat right now? Thought I was in the forum. When I think of chat, I think of DM but with more people, like a Whatsapp group or a signal group. That is what channels are … I can see you already created a few channels and secured them using your secure categories. All the people with access to the secure categories now have access to the chat … especially since you already set up `chat_allowed_groups` appropriately. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-anyone-use-chat-on-their-site/315051)._