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

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

There are personal messages (which can have multiple participants, if required) - or you can set up private categories.

See also:

(as suggested in another topic related topic)

or have a look at Babble:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/31753

There’s a recent blog post from our very own @erlend_sh that goes into detail here.

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.

Ja, wir bauen das jetzt für 2.9. Rechtzeitiger Bump.. :stopwatch:

Ich nehme an, es wurde wegen Discourse Chat verschoben?

Nein, es war ein zufälliger Bump. Alle Bumps sind zufällig (solange das Thema offen und alt genug / lange genug nicht gebumpt wurde).

Oh, es war also nur ein Zufall. Schon gut… :thinking: