消息和聊天区别混淆

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没有什么要补充的，只是关于聊天/帖子区别的讨论：

Now I've got Chat what do I do with Personal Messages?

I love Discourse Chat - it is thoroughly polished and gives a brilliant experience for ephemeral communications within an online forum in ways we could only dream of last year. However, I’m stuck with a bit of a problem. After a few years of nudging folk to use personal messages (PMs) as a never-very-satisfactory alternative to chat, what do I do with them? Group comms are also usually fine as a chat channel. And as you need a category to anchor that anyway, there is an obvious place for persi…

Chat vs Messages

Forgive my silly questions - we’re in the process of upgrading our very old (pre-Chat-as-Core) install to the latest version. We’re trying to figure out if we want to activate Chat. What’s the difference/pros-cons between Chat and Messages? We have turned off ‘Enable public channels based on categories.’ yet the Chat popup defaults to the ‘Channels’ tab rather than DMs - is there a way to hide the Channels tab? Is there a way to migrate Messages into Chats/DMs so communications are all …

以及来自 团队的有价值的引述：

2022年，

@awesomerobot

从我的角度来看，这两种功能的区别相当细微，对大多数用户来说可能根本不存在。

@awesomerobot

没有什么能阻止我在聊天中写段落（我经常这样做！），也没有什么能阻止人们异步地给我发送聊天消息。

2024年，

@HAWK

我不认为它们会合并——它们服务于非常不同的目的。聊天是短暂的，用于与人进行快速讨论。私信是永久性的，因此用于将来可能需要重新审视的私人讨论。

我同意，对于许多社区来说，聊天根本不是必需的，可以将其关闭。但对于其他社区（如内部社区）来说，它很重要。