User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-25356303-20200805194820

I'm not keen on relying entirely on Discord for synchronous communication. The platform breaks relatively often, and not having a 1:1 correspondence between editor usernames and Discord usernames is a bit of a pain to deal with. My team on Elder Scrolls uses Slack to communicate in addition to Discord, a layer of redundancy that allows staff members to stay in contact even in an emergency, but there have been occasions where we've reverted to the Chat too. It's definitely convenient to have an on-site chat feature. It can be a little tricky to moderate (as I'm sure many users have forgotten, after all these years of near-dead Chat), but I think it serves as a valuable way for editors to communicate. If you're able to create a non-spaghettified and mobile-friendly chatroom feature in the future, that would be my preference.