# Near Real-time Discussions (not chat) - Optimizing Features

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** planned\
**Created:** [21. August 2015 um 00:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349 "2015-08-21T00:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)\
**Post date:** [21. August 2015 um 00:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349/1 "2015-08-21T00:44:16Z")

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As I mentioned earlier - we’re seeing a lot of continuous use of our forums with near-realtime conversations taking place (we’re up to over 1,000 messages a day typically now and most of them on the typical peak hour times).

I’m wondering if there are ways to modify the software to make near real-time discussions more fluid and engaging. For example - if you’re in a topic reading and responding - adding some features facilitate these types of discussions - for example automatically telling the people on that topic when someone else might be typing a response, and automatically showing the new posting immediately when the person completes it to all the people currently on the thread (correct me if I’m wrong here - but I don’t think the current forum software does this.

I’m not sure of all the features that make sense - but it really seems like there is an opportunity here to create a new type of discussion software that bridges chat and traditional forum software - for higher volume sites.

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