In the context of fossil-scm, it does make sense. The idea of fossil is that it's 1 embedded database (sqlite) that contains the entirety of your development ac

In the context of fossil-scm, it does make sense. The idea of fossil is that it's 1 embedded database (sqlite) that contains the entirety of your development activities. scm, wiki, defect tracking, a little bit of project management, and now chat room. The entire idea of fossil is that you shouldn't need to use another website or another tool for anything related to tracking your development. It's the "I am stranded on a tropical island, what do I use for hacking on a project if I can't have github or irc or slack or any other tools out there." In the context of fossil, chat is just a couple messages being passed around with no account taken at all for any other concerns. It's not a "chat" tool, it's a chat tool for the fossil-scm. Especially if you look at the Ephemeral feature - they delete chat messages after a certain configurable time - so they don't even have to worry about keeping messages.