# 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")\
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**Author:** ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734/3 "2021-12-01T18:35:54Z")

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This is probably getting _way_ ahead of things, but — is there any thought of bridging?

Because while I love Discourse, the _last_ thing I need is _yet another source of instant messages_. In Fedora, we’re in the midst of moving from IRC to Matrix. This would be very useful if we can bridge to matrix… and going in the wrong direction for communications fragmentation if we can’t.

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