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

[Decorbuz]

Предполагаю, это было поднято из-за Discourse Chat?

Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA)

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 One of the most upvoted HN stories of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: The very first paragra…