# The Chat Feedback topic **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** chat\ **Created:** [May 9, 2022, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-feedback-topic/226520 "2022-05-09T09:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-feedback-topic/226520/1 "2022-05-09T09:40:04Z")
This is the new topic to house all the feedback about the [chat plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734). Chat is still mainly available here on Meta for those in the @chat-testers group, but feel free to request access if you want to check it out. 🥳 There is a chat channel attached to this topic to gather quick, ongoing feedback from people, and anything longer-lasting can be pulled out into its own #Contribute > Bug report or #Contribute > Feature request, etc (with a #chat tag attached to tie it all together 🙂). If anyone is already comfortable with submitting #Contribute > Bug and #Contribute > Feature topics then feel free to skip reporting it in the Feedback channel, or you can use it alongside if you want to chat about the issue or explore it a little with others before writing it up. 👍 There is also an optional extra Focused Sidebar theme component available to work alongside chat which you can enable from the hamburger menu: ![sidebar enable](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/9/c/69c0ec3e8a26e37d1f7430c1a2a5cd14c1f803cf.png)     ![sidebar in action](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/b/e/1be0e3d9d3a224b36568d445897104177b23fc6b.png) If this is the first time you’ve heard about our upcoming Chat feature you can check out the topic below for more details - and you can find all the other chat-related topics by clicking on the #chat tag. Happy Chatting! 🙂 > [@Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-beta/210734): > > Three years ago we published a blog post about how Discourse and the long-form forum paradigm can co-exist with the short-form chat paradigm: This kind of tooling mashup works, but it has some flaws. You end up with: Duplicate user directories Competing forms of private messaging “Where does this message belong?” uncertainty Poorly integrated tools for [content gardening](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)[One of the most upvoted HN stories](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216) of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: The very first paragra… ---
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-feedback-topic/226520/5 "2024-08-31T21:12:16Z")
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-chat-feedback-topic/226520/6 "2024-08-31T21:12:20Z")