Is there a live communication element to Discourse? More like IRC than forum

[steko (Stefano Costa)]

See also:

Discourse and Slack (or other group chat apps like IRC, HipChat, Gitter, etc)

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