Event Chat Channels Now Available

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We’ve added the ability to create dedicated chat channels for calendar events.

What’s new:

  • Admins and moderators can enable chat integration when creating events
  • A private chat channel is automatically created for the event
  • Users who mark “Going” or “Interested” are automatically added to the channel
  • Events display a link to their associated chat channel

The image shows the "Edit Event" settings in an application, with "Public" selected and "Chat integration" enabled to create and manage an event-specific chat channel. (Captioned by AI)
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The image shows a calendar event titled "Magic Event" scheduled for June 21, 2025, at 2:41 PM, created by someone named Sam. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a calendar event titled "Magic Event" scheduled for June 21, 2025, at 2:41 PM, created by someone named Sam. (Captioned by AI)802×386 19.3 KB

How to use:
When creating/editing an event, check the “Chat integration” option. The system handles the rest - creating the channel and syncing attendees automatically.

This works well for coordinating meetups, workshops, or any event where participants benefit from real-time discussion. :bullseye:

Note: Chat channel creation is currently limited to staff (admins and moderators) only.

Requires both Calendar and Chat plugins enabled.

For more information about Discourse Calendar: Discourse Calendar (and Event)

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@sam does this one complement the livestream plugin or replace it?

ref: Discourse Livestream

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Complement for now!

There are obvious similarities and there might be a future where they converge. But for now, they are separate.

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Great plugin and thanks for the effort but the most basic option of limiting the number of participant to an event(like with pavillon’s plugin) could be taken into account Limit the amount of people who can attend an event - #4 by pbstgbr

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This is a killer feature! I’ve just re-enabled chat on an instance in order to utilise this. It will really help with the often messy event shenanigans that happen all too often!

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I’ve got a bug for this - when I attempt to add a chat channel to an event in a PM I get an internal server error.

While this might be a bit of an edge case, it doesn’t make sense to have the option to create a chat channel where it is going to error out.

May I suggest that:

  1. this feature be extended to work with Events in PMs
    or

  2. that the option does not appear when an Event is created in a PM

The former would provide some resilience if a topic is converted to a PM in future.