Tighter integration between chat and forum - discussing ideas

[jimkleiber]

I just saw this post and think it may relate to what someone suggested earlier about creating a chat based on a topic in real time, when people seem to be replying very quickly to the topic:

Real-time updating of topics freezes under high activity

I would consider that a success. Can you provide a repro here on meta? Probably not since it requires a large number of active users idling in the same topic at the same time? My current thinking is we should build a live chat feature and instantiate it just-in-time, when you have… lots of users in the same topic at the same time then, and only then, instantiate a live chat box overlay and strongly push users into using that instead of replies, maybe even disable the ability to r…