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

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**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:** ![Decorbuz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/decorbuz/32/235124_2.png) [@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")

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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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