# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349/17 "2015-08-25T08:04:16Z")

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Added a “planned” tag here in particular for

> [@Near Real-time Discussions (not chat) - Optimizing Features](https://meta.discourse.org/t/near-real-time-discussions-not-chat-optimizing-features/32349/14):
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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.

For our next release we want to add a general method for “short lived” notifications. Eg, little bubble to inform you of stuff like:

- Bob just replied to this topic
- Bill just closed this topic  
(maybe) - Bob just liked your post on this topic.

Etc.

Key is to have a general mechanism and UI for short lived automatically collapsing notifications.

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