User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3569803-20110926193031/@comment-3388044-20110926202415

Kitsufox, Chat is optional and sysops can turn it off now. It will not remain that way. Everything in Wikia Labs eventually “graduates”. Chat will graduate, at which time it will no longer be optional (even though I think Chat is a good thing).

Similarly, the Message Walls that will replace all talkpage namespaces here at Wikia are merely Article Comments graduating from Wikia Labs.