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Private chat real-time

A must!! Until then we open a game without time and talk real-time on game's chat.
Same here. We open a game without playing just so we can chat.

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This seems to be a recurring suggestion... I posted about it myself, and others also had talked about it before me. :D

+1 for volume anyway~
I believe the dev. opinion on the subject was that because there is a game chat that can be utilized like that, there's no reason to have live chat elsewhere. I believe they said that it was a feature at one time, but that it was horribly abused and became unpopular. I may be misrepresenting what was stated, however.

I personally think it'd be nice to have private chat be real time rather than message based. I also still stand firm that it'd be nice to have real time chat on the team pages as well.
Group chat was on lichess a long time ago and redefined the meaning of horrible. Since then, thibault's taken a great aversion to anything of the sort.

We don't want that at all. We want something very simple. Real-time *private* messaging, not a group chat, similar to how facebook does it. If you're following someone and they follow you back, I'd like to message them in real-time if they're online.

Otherwise I'm stuck with opening games with people that I don't mean to play if I just want a quick chat. :/
Yeah, exactly. Group chat is a horrible idea, and I can definitely see why that was removed. I think having real time one-on-one messaging between people who are mutually following each other would be a nice addition.

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