I've toyed with putting WebSocket-based live chat boxes on pages with various types of more traditional dynamic content (like an imgur clone) because I don't th

I've toyed with putting WebSocket-based live chat boxes on pages with various types of more traditional dynamic content (like an imgur clone) because I don't think we've exhausted all the interesting ways that people can interact in real time on the internet, but in practice there's always the problem that there are a very dense super active times and then tons of large super dead times, and it gives way to a group of people with shared interest that wants to turn into a live community but just can't and after a few days of checking in often for other people, they just get back on with their lives and abandon the thing.