Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4832646-20140719071615/@comment-25148755-20140721050407

Pretty new to the site so I actually haven't seen chat in action. However, I don't think its particularly detrimental to the site not to have it:

1.  Technical questions: There are a bunch of instruction pages and blog posts that cover the vast majority of this stuff. Barring that, there are the admin talk pages. Based on what I've seen the administrators on this site are pretty freaking solid and get back to people in a day or two at most. If that's not fast enough, the Writer's Workshop can probably get back to you in a couple hours unless it's something really obscure.

2.  Collaboration: This is more of a personal preference, but I would never want to collaborate with someone over chat but would prefer email. If you absolutely need to chat with someone, there are plenty of generic chat functions you can use (I prefer Line)

3.  Social stuff: Like I already said, there's plenty of generic chat functions you can use.

4.  Finding good creepy pastas:  I can almost guarantee there is a page, forum, or blog somewhere you can look up and post suggestions for this. If not, it would be super easy to make one. This would actually be better than chat since it would have staying power rather than be lost as soon as the conversation moved on.

5.  It's the internet. When people can anonymously post, they will get stupid. When they can post and receive instantaneous feedback, they will get stupid faster. If Newton were still alive this would be his fourth law.