User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-46430036-20200805200715/@comment-5553768-20200805202328

You have to remember that Fandom is a platform - provided to you and me for free. They have to make decisions that are both beneficial to the community and for the business.

Unfortunately, chat would cost so much money and investment in order to get it to the standard it needs to be and even then, there's no promise that people will use it enough to warrant the investment.

I know how you feel, believe me I do. I'm just as sad as you are - I joined Fandom years ago, when it was called Wikia - as a member of chat and that's how I got introduced.

You can still get involved though and there's plenty you can do to help the community you obviously care for.