What happened with the CT Chat?

tl;dr: It’s gone.

Yesterday we run a fun experiment and integrated chatrooms into communities. It’s something that many of you have been requesting so it was only fair to give it a shot. Normally, it would take months of hard work and dedication to build such a feature, so we decided to use a 3rd party solution to test the idea.

Unfortunately that meant we had to compromise on the most fundamental things that make a chatroom great (e.g. moderation). Despite the basic experience there was great activity in some of the communities and we were glued to the screen for hours.

Experiments like this help us think about the direction of Car Throttle and make it easier to decide what features to build next. At the end of the day, making chat work on a community level is a huge challenge but it’s something we have to seriously evaluate.

Stay tuned CTzens!