# 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: ![icaria36](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734/9 "2021-12-01T23:42:36Z")

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Very interesting news, thank you.

My first thought was… time to polish emoji reactions and support them officially?

I swear I’m not kidding.

(Yes, [Discourse Retort](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retort-a-reaction-style-plugin-for-discourse/35903) exists.)

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