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Most Fossil projects are on the smaller (smallest?) side, apart from 2-3 outliers. They certainly don't have a dedicated IM channel, and they certainly don't need it... except when they do.

I could see this as a useful feature when you need to chat with contributors once in a while in a less-formal way than issue comments.

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Yes. Developers working independently is best for productivity, but sometimes you need to coordinate something, which then brings up the question: what to use? The last time I tried to list it, I came up with over a dozen options, all of which either require some sort of admin setup hassle or put you into the claws of some megacorp. With Fossil chat, you've already got Fossil set up, so it becomes the low-friction path.

I forsee an addition to this diagram with "the chat tab of a shared fossil repo", as one of the completely isolated bubbles to the side

https://xkcd.com/1810/

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