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Ask HN: Why do popular sites don't have chat?
I am talking about stack overflow, github or other projects that have a large community. I am building a community kind of project and I am wondering if there is a specific decision from these sites not to include chat for x,y reasons between their users. It is technically fairly easy so there must be something else. Isn't it a good incentive to keep your users online for more time?
- johnloeber 12y agoWhy would they need to include chat services? External chat clients already exist, and for the important internal messages, there are systems for communication: - StackExchange has a comment system, as well as a Meta discussion board, as well as chatrooms for every StackExchange site - GitHub has commit messages and issue tracking, as well as e-mail addresses listed for contact, and in-project e-mail threads So these sites really do have chat, just not the Facebook-Messenger type of chat that you might be thinking of.