# Effectively using Discourse together with group chat

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**Created:** [10 באפריל,‏ 2018,‏ 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/84977 "2018-04-10T13:29:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [10 באפריל,‏ 2018,‏ 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/84977/1 "2018-04-10T13:29:35Z")

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Originally published at: [Effectively using Discourse together with group chat](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/)  
   
Most modern businesses and organisations today are using some kind of team chat application. The usual suspects are Slack, HipChat, Discord, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, Riot, and Gitter, to name a few. While chat is immediate and primarily synchronous, communication in Discourse is gradual and asynchronous. We’ve seen far too many community managers treat these two…

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