Board Thread:Administration/@comment-2240864-20140808225958/@comment-5643552-20140813195405

WhyAmIReadingThis wrote:

IRC was already tried, wasn't liked by the people Well, that's sort of to be expected. The people (read: chat regulars) are more used to the Wikia chat model.

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote:

As for the IRC, I don't see how that would be any different from the site chat, or how it would be immune to the problems that the site chat experienced. It's just changing the location of the chat, it's not addressing the issues at all. It's like, after your car is stolen, getting the same model with the same security features but in a different color. Same goes for Skype or any of the other suggested chat "alternatives" which are just other versions of chat. I actually wouldn't be against the idea of an having an irc since it would be hosted on an entirely separate site (as opposed to being an extension of this site) and, as ChaoZ mentioned, we could have more than one of them. A main chat for discussing site-related matters, a mostly unmoderated one to contain all the off-topic shitposting, etc.