# 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:** [June 20, 2016, 12:37pm 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: ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 1:08pm 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")

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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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