[HN Gopher] Show HN: Niche Community - Quickly create general-pu...
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       Show HN: Niche Community - Quickly create general-purpose online
       communities
        
       Author : zenith035
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-09-21 20:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | metadat wrote:
       | Does it support realtime chat?
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       | If communities could easily form and include both chat and
       | message board functionality, that could be really neat. I'm
       | imagining realtime chats for specific events.
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       | Kind of like if Discord and Twitch chat had a baby. More dynamic
       | and short-term than Discord.
        
         | zenith035 wrote:
         | Right now - there is no realtime chat support but we are going
         | to add it soon. The rationale behind going for the message
         | board style first was that the market already has too many chat
         | platforms at the moment and though the communities on chat
         | platforms are great the context gets lost pretty soon when
         | there are too many members. This also leads to reduced quality
         | of discourse.
         | 
         | There is a use-case for real-time chat as you mentioned though.
         | For eg. a community of baseball fans will need a real-time chat
         | during an ongoing game and they shouldn't need to switch
         | platforms for that.
        
           | metadat wrote:
           | Very cool, keep up the good work!
        
             | zenith035 wrote:
             | Thanks :)
        
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