# Tighter integration between chat and forum - discussing ideas **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** chat\ **Created:** [May 25, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tighter-integration-between-chat-and-forum-discussing-ideas/228088 "2022-05-25T15:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tighter-integration-between-chat-and-forum-discussing-ideas/228088/2 "2022-05-25T20:44:34Z")
I’m all for these new ideas, and just speaking for myself, I can often feel confused when I don’t see them drawn out. The LiquidText video helps a bit but not sure if I’d feel super excited to use that layout. > [@oshyan](#): > > You could freely intermix “chat” and “forum” ways of “replying”, and chat reply would essentially create an _in-line_ chat instance for some short-ish period of time by default (further activity in it extends the time), sort of like Discord auto-expiring threads So would this be more like a Google Docs comments running down the right sidebar of the topic? Or would it appear under the posts in the topic? Indented? I like the idea of making it easier to create chat channels on the fly and also wonder how someone will know whether to post to chat or post to topic. Would it be a matter of post duration (shorter to chat, longer to topic)? Length of post (shorter to chat, longer to topic)? Seriousness of post (more playful to chat, more serious to topic)? Etc. Personally I’m trying to be more aware of when I want to chat and when I want to topicalize (trying to turn it into a verb). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tighter-integration-between-chat-and-forum-discussing-ideas/228088)._