User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-4120511-20200806200703

I think people are overreacting just a bit. Back in 2011 to maybe about 2015 or 2016 it did fulfill the purpose of a chat space that people needed to talk about wikia things or just socialize. But Discord and other chatting software has kinda overcome this feature. And no Wikia I've been on has used it if at all since 2018 to now. Now every community is obviously different but even with Discord you can offer multiple channels for multiple things that Wikia simply cannot keep up with. Its pretty obvious that this shut down was coming from a mile away.