Our recent outage comes with an upside: we’re on the latest version of Discourse now includes a built-in chat function (and we get to control the scroll rate, unlike Slack!)
To access Chat use the talk bubble icon at top right:
That opens a talk panel at the bottom of your screen:
We should experiment with this to see if it gets us off the hook for the perennial “slack vs discord vs mastodon vs …?” discussions that crop up whenever a good conversation scrolls off the slack client now.
If you’re a mobile used, incidentally, you should install the Discourse Hub app (for iOS or Android) This gives you both a good mobile version of the site and access to chat