# Speccing out a full page chat plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/speccing-out-a-full-page-chat-plugin/49430>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [29. August 2016 um 14:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/speccing-out-a-full-page-chat-plugin/49430 "2016-08-29T14:28:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdpelican](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gdpelican/32/81308_2.png) [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)\
**Post date:** [18. Oktober 2016 um 17:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/speccing-out-a-full-page-chat-plugin/49430/11 "2016-10-18T17:56:08Z")

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This is awesome work, thanks! Some thoughts:

- I wondered while playing about the way we differentiate between a ‘category’ and a ‘group’ chat. Here’s a quick mockup for something that feels intuitive to me:

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**Group chat:**

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/1/81cf187044cc35a155636fce4fd0fc5feb3b391f.png)

**Category chat:**

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/9/a90dafa071966e31e90b4c9c9e327cac6ccffff7.png)

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- ‘Chat’ archetype seems simple and cool. Does this mean that topics won’t appear in the topics list anymore for admins?
- The chat button on a category seems like a great way to get into the full page chat; we’ll want a way to swap between chats once there though. I’ll have a play today to see what I can come up with there.

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