Chat function like Slack?

peluso - As you might have seen throughout the community that OOB chat function was discontinued a long time ago, so short answer is, No. However, it is not the end of the world, you can always make a custom chat feature. We did build a PoC for our customer which works great. It can show the user's online status, show your friends online, send/ receive real time messages just like facebook chat etc.

On top of everything, the live chat actually doesn't make any sense in the context of the forums. When you have a chat feature enabled, your community would start to get lesser and lesser posts asking questions/ giving answers because most of them would be given over the chat it self. Which means a user looking for answers would never get any. You can however, restrict the chat to certain roles/ ranks to have a lesser effect on the community health.

Hope this helps.

Makes sense Varun,

Thanks!