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Poll for chat users and non-chat users

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There is a link in the right hand panel (or bottom of the page on mobile) to "join us in chat".

Chat is an entirely optional extra, but I'm curious about one thing, so this question is intended as a simple poll to gather information by voting on answers.

Some people are users of Codidact, but not of chat, while others are users of both. Since Codidact is open source and non-profit, while chat is currently not (being provided by Discord), I can imagine 3 groups:

  • People who use chat.
  • People who do not use chat because they have no interest in chat.
  • People who would be interested in chat but avoid Discord.

Maybe also a 4th group:

  • People who do not use chat because they were not aware of it.

If you are in one of those groups, please upvote the corresponding answer, or add it if it does not yet exist. I'm hoping that answers here will be a single line for voting on, to get an idea of numbers. If you want to discuss details of whether we should have chat or who should provide it, feel free to raise a separate Meta question for that discussion (rather than an answer here).

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trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 month ago
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I fully expect that this poll will initially be biased towards chat users since they will be notified of the new Meta post. I'm hoping this will balance out over time as this initial advantage reduces.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote about 1 month ago
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I was notified of the new post by the gray dot in the sites overview page. There is no need to be part of chat to see new posts.

trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 month ago
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I understand that non-chat users will see the new post. My point was about who would see it first.

Chat is intended for real time communication so it seems more likely that chat users would have a tab open that would notify them immediately, whereas non-chat users would only see the notification dot when they next happen to look at Codidact.

Personally I have Codidact open in a tab and would tend to see a new post within a few hours, but some people may only check every few days, so I expected that the first few viewers of the question may be chat users. You being the first to respond suggests that expectation was incorrect.