# Is there a live communication element to Discourse? More like IRC than forum
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016年六月20日 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068 "2016-06-20T12:37:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Greg11](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Greg11)
#### Post date: [2016年六月20日 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/1 "2016-06-20T12:37:26Z")
Is there a live or private communication element to Discourse? More like IRC or chat than forum?
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### Author:  [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [2016年六月20日 12:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/2 "2016-06-20T12:46:27Z")
There are personal messages (which can have multiple participants, if required) - or you can set up private categories.
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### Author:  [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [2016年六月20日 13:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/3 "2016-06-20T13:08:05Z")
See also:
> [@Discourse and Slack (or other group chat apps like IRC, HipChat, Gitter, etc)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-slack-or-other-group-chat-apps-like-irc-hipchat-gitter-etc/39630):
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> Discourse vs. Slack Finding the right place for a discussion On Slack, discussions are separated into different channels. This shares many of the same problems as groups in email - it’s not clear which channels exist, which ones are still active, and where a particular discussion should take place. On Discourse, discussions will be visible to everyone so it doesn’t matter as much which category you choose when a topic is created. And if it seems like a topic should later be moved to another cat…
(as suggested in another topic related topic)
or have a look at Babble:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/31753](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/31753)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年二月1日 23:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/4 "2019-02-01T23:03:53Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2019年二月1日 23:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/5 "2019-02-01T23:12:28Z")
There’s a recent blog post from our very own @erlend_sh that goes into detail here.
> **[Effectively using Discourse together with group chat](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/04/effectively-using-discourse-together-with-group-chat/)**
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> Most modern businesses and organisations today are using some kind of team chat application. The usual suspects are Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, and Matrix, to name a few.
TL;DR we integrate tightly with chat, but we aren’t chat. The unit of work in the chat is the **word**. the unit of work in Discourse is the **sentence** and ideally the **paragraph**. Different beats.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2022年二月11日 23:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/6 "2022-02-11T23:29:16Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2022年二月12日 00:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/7 "2022-02-12T00:07:00Z")
是的，我们现在正在为 2.9 版本构建此功能。及时提醒.. ⏱
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### Author:  [@Decorbuz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Decorbuz)
#### Post date: [2022年二月12日 04:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/8 "2022-02-12T04:07:50Z")
我猜是因为 Discourse Chat 推迟了？
> [@Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-pre-alpha/210734):
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> Three years ago we published a blog post about how Discourse and the long-form forum paradigm can co-exist with the short-form chat paradigm: This kind of tooling mashup works, but it has some flaws. You end up with: Duplicate user directories Competing forms of private messaging “Where does this message belong?” uncertainty Poorly integrated tools for [content gardening](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)[One of the most upvoted HN stories](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216) of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: [https://www.mooreds.com/…](https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2022年二月12日 05:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/9 "2022-02-12T05:10:17Z")
不，这是一个随机的顶帖。所有顶帖都是随机的（只要帖子是开放的，并且足够旧/足够长没有被顶过）。
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### Author:  [@Decorbuz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Decorbuz)
#### Post date: [2022年二月13日 17:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/10 "2022-02-13T17:18:52Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 所有置顶都是随机的（只要主题是开放的，并且足够旧/足够长没有被置顶）。
哦，那只是个巧合。算了…… 🤔
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2022年五月24日 05:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068/11 "2022-05-24T05:18:56Z")