User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-7180588-20200805194424

I am not sure how to feel about this. Not everyone has access to Discord, and furthermore, one of the wikis I am on frequently highly values chat. We use it for private discussions that some users may not wish to see (one of my favorite parts), and it is a very convenient place to make plans about our community. The emoticons feature is also something hard to recreate anywhere else, as the related emoticons will have been completely erased from Fandom. Chat is very convenient for first time users to familiarize themselves with a wiki, and the fact is that it provides a more welcoming feel than say, a message wall. Good discussions on community topics and explaining your reasoning for things such as votes work better on chat as opposed to other online platforms. Finally, I feel as if the fact that chats aren't logged automatically and messages disappear is the only problem.