User blog comment:RealKnockout/UCP suggestions/@comment-2.121.208.53-20201011164721/@comment-47011541-20201011165302

Stating that chat is essential for Fandom is quite an overstatement.

There are some good alternatives to the outdated Chat feature, the most prominent of which being Discord. The original chat feature from Fandom had limited usage, so bringing it over would’ve been unnecessary and would’ve added more clutter to Fandom, when other features could’ve been implemented.