# Is there a live communication element to Discourse? More like IRC than forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [Junho 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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [Fevereiro 1, 2019, 11:12pm 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/)** > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-live-communication-element-to-discourse-more-like-irc-than-forum/46068)._