My perspective on this hasn't really changed. It's clear there is a good deal of interest (though mostly from "the regulars" it seems?), and it's something we will consider for that reason. But a large part of the importance and value of this place is as a learning resource for others, so preserving the discussion and making it easily searchable after the fact is highly important. If there is a "chat" approach that can address that I'd be in favor of it and wouldn't hesitate to implement. But we also don't want to be dealing with 1000's of lines of "idle chatter" to be sifted through for worthwhile info. The problem is that, while chat may be "mostly" non-critical stuff, inevitably there will be useful, important, insightful things discussed there, and if we don't archive it, we lose it, yet if we attempt to archive it all, we'll have too much that is not useful to sift through for the good stuff. How to solve this?
- Oshyan
