I don't know how to feel about this other than the fact that you could've talked in chat about this.

@MarkGiraffe I'm fairly new to this site (at least activity-wise) and didn't know a chat was implemented.

Besides that, I hate chats in general (various reasons) and don't use them. Ever. I find the multi-way real-time interaction problematic for me (various reasons).

Anyway I thought that Meta was the right place for any meta discussion, the same way as on SE network.

We have a Discord chat as an informal thing, but it's not directly tied to accounts here and not everyone uses it, and that's fine. Everyone should feel welcome to use meta (or flags if you think something shouldn't be public) to bring attention to issues.

Monica Cellio‭ Thanks for pointing that out, Monica! I already feared I had to use the chat to get things moving. Please, don't get me wrong, I know that some people appreciate a chat as a quick interaction method, but it's really not my thing. Among other things, I hate being compelled to reply in real time (for fear of being considered rude) when maybe real life chime-in.

Chat is good for some things and some people, but we never intended to suggest that people must use it, especially when it's a third-party system. We shouldn't require that you trust, or want to have an account on, or want the hassle of Discord in order to get stuff done on Codidact. It's there for those who want, but we'd prefer to get bug reports, support requests, alerts to things we should look at, etc via the network -- easier to manage, better auditing, more visibility.