Is there a way to chat with Discobot?

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The discussion Is there a way to chat with Discobot? began with trusktr inquiring about the possibility of chatting with Discobot to ask questions about Discourse features and settings. tobiaseigen suggested using ask.discourse.com for this purpose. Canapin wondered why ask.discourse.com uses the .com domain instead of .org, which led to a discussion about adding a redirect. sam explained that the .com domain is used because it relies on paid LLMs and suggested adding a redirect. Following this, tobiaseigen and Lilly worked together to implement the redirect from ask.discourse.org to ask.discourse.com.

For example, I’d like to ask the AI questions about Discourse features, settings, etc, and get responses, in a chat format.

Is the search “Discoveries” features as close as it gets currently? That shows a single response to a search query sometimes.

Maybe opening Chat DMs or Channels with Discobot, could be useful, to have a useful back and forth.

Try ask.discourse.com

It’s probably a silly question, but I wonder why ask uses the .com domain extension, when the main site and the forum both use .org :thinking:
I’ve more than once typed “ask.discourse.org” by mistake…

Me too! I am not sure why that decision was taken. :person_shrugging:

It is a commercial thing, I think the URL is right, it leans on for pay LLMs to actually power it.

That said, I think it is fair that we should add a redirect @tobiaseigen can you add a TODO to track this, infra or maybe even it support can take care of this.

We now have a redirect ask.discourse.org → ask.discourse.com.

Thanks, @lilly! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

And thanks, @Canapin, for asking the not so silly question. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: I got burned by this a few times myself!

not silly at all - this caught me the first couple times i tried tbh. I added the redirect now.