User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-31863794-20200805193536

Disappointing, but not surprising news. In fairness, I guess it makes sense to get rid of Chat in its current state. It's quite archaic without Dev scripts added.

But I don't think pushing everyone to Slack or Discord, third-party apps that can be quite a hassle for non-experienced users to set up on their wikis, is the right decision. Chat could have easily been replaced with a better version (hello there, MediaWikiChat).

Anyone that used Chat did so because it enabled live-time chatting on-wiki that they could join with their Fandom account, no extra accounts or downloads required. I understand that Chat wasn't perfect and the numbers weren't there for it and I might be barking up the wrong tree, but I just wish there were other options here.