Hello everyone,
We discussed this request at the last @forums-governance team meeting.
Although we understand the desire from some people to have chats directly on Discourse, we also think that the problem to solve has a wider scope than these forums.
People want a modern, easy, welcoming and safe platform for OSM chatting, integrated with their existing accounts, where conversations can be centralized and donât require different platforms.
Thatâs why we think that enabling chat channels on these forums without a global strategy behind will do little to solve the identified problem, and we wonât be doing it for now.
We encourage everyone here to continue and kick-start a separate discussion over General talk on how to modernize and connect OSM chat conversations that can be proposed to the OSM Board to take a decision on.
Thanks everyone for the feedback.