Discourse Chat is now available. Try it out today!
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Chat is here! Enable conversations in your community to flow between faster-paced chat and slower-paced discussions.
  • azron
    12•2 years ago

    Cool that they are adding this but I am slightly disappointed that it appears to be their own protocol.

    • poVoqOP
      4•2 years ago

      Maybe there is a way to make an appservice (Matrix) or component (xmpp) extension to link it to a separate existing server.

    • poVoqOP
      4•2 years ago

      It’s a nice alternative to Discord for communities that already have a Discourse forum.

        • poVoqOP
          3•2 years ago

          Both, that’s what also makes it interesting as it should be easier to move discussions in either direction and thus reduce the problem that so many interesting discussions end up undocumented in closed chat platforms for future searches.

          • @XpeeN@sopuli.xyz
            3•2 years ago

            I looked briefly at their website and I really couldn’t find their advantage over reddit or lemmy for example. Also, their demo somewhat reminded me of quara lol

            • poVoqOP
              6•2 years ago

              You mean Discourse the forum or the chat? The forum is just a nice forum, not better or worse than others. But forums are being abandoned for chat systems like Discord as a rapid pace, so combining the advantages of a forum and a chat system which is what Discourse is trying with this, might turn out to be the only way to save forums.

              • @marmulak@lemmy.ml
                1•2 years ago

                What I try to do is create a Matrix chat and the link it to a Lemmy community. You get the best of both worlds

            • Liwott
              2•2 years ago

              I really couldn’t find their advantage over reddit or lemmy for example

              Looking at the Features page on their website, I see interesting features that are absent from Lemmy:
              - Emoji
              - Reply by email
              - Post revision history
              - Collaboratively edit wiki posts

              Then looking at a random Socialhub comment, I find the quoting system to be really interesting. A major feature that the fediverse is lacking in my opinion.

              • Cold Hotman
                1•2 years ago
                • Emoji

                I find the quoting system to be really interesting. A major feature that the fediverse is lacking in my opinion.

                🙂

                • Liwott
                  2•2 years ago

                  My bad, I thought it was emoji reactions 😅

  • musicmatze
    1•2 years ago

    Things that nobody asked for are finally happening? Nice.

    But still, discourse is a closed community and they’re adding even more functionality that results in a closed community. Why not embrace Matrix and activitypub?

    • 3•2 years ago

      @musicmatze
      >Things that nobody asked for are finally happening

      You think if you didn’t ask for it, no one did?

      >Things that nobody asked for are finally happening

      Closed how? How Matrix is more open?