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I’m not building yet another general chat platform. I agree that there are plenty of those.

Instead, I’m building a niche socialization platform which has chat as one of its core components.

I would go up one level of abstraction then and look at chat-as-service / embeddable chat SDKs. If it’s a niche service, it will be a good while at best before you break even writing your own.

Oh I see. Well unless there are special requirements there is are probably existing modules you can drop in, e.g. from Drupal.

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