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Is there a link in this post where we can demo the Chat app? Like, a chat for the Meta discourse forum?

Sidenote: Discourse Forums seems grossly unoptimized in terms of what I'm downloading in the browser. Disabling javascript makes the site look pretty awful, yet I'm still downloading 170kb of CSS (post gzip... 750kb total).

Edit: ah, this is just an announcement, and not an actual release gotcha.

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Link with installation instruction is at the bottom of the blog post:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881

You can try it out meta.discourse.org if log in to meta and then join the https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers group (self serve)

Regarding bundle sizes, we hear you and have some long term plans to investigate code splitting, it is a very long journey but we will get there. At the moment you get the majority of the app on first payload, making subsequent clicks very fast.

Thank you for the link

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