# Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA) **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734 **Category:** Announcements **Tags:** chat, new-feature **Created:** [December 1, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734 "2021-12-01T18:18:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 128
### Author: ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber) #### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734/128 "2022-04-20T17:56:15Z")
I would like this as well. Maybe even just a Group setting where one could add the chat channels to which members of a group would be auto-joined, similar to how many of the multi-select settings work. Similar to this but I think different enough. The one below is more about auto-creation of a chat channel for the specific group: > [@Chats for Discourse Groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chats-for-discourse-groups/223967): > > I see right now it’s possible to link a chat channel to a category or a topic and then also to have personal chats with people one adds, but, I don’t see a way to connect a chat channel to Discourse Groups found at, for example, [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/g). I’d love this feature to be able to automatically set up group chats connected to the Discourse Groups, as it’d allow all the moderators to chat in one channel, or staff, or admins, or students of a particular cohort, etc. Is this currently possible or … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734)._