# 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:** [August 21, 2015, 12:44am 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: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349/14 "2015-08-21T02:31:47Z")

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Twitter does something nice here where they pop up a little floating non modal box that lets you know new stuff is there. Gmail does it too with a slightly different non modal alert near the composer. That sort of thing might be nice.

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