You've suggested a chat in the past and there wasn't much interest. I doubt adding one will change things much. Also you start off saying downvotes are bad as they make people leave (well, not everyone, clearly), but then write people aren't interested in votes. Which is it?

@robev. You dont address my question of why people dont come here and instead like yourself go to SE which is more important than what you ask me. People are not interested to come here to gain votes, but that doesnt mean they want to be abused by downvotes. There is a lot of interest in the SE chat and there is no reason that the same people who frequent both sites dont want one here.

You'll have to define "a lot of interest". The chat on SE (at least on MY) has gone months without anyone chatting anything significant...I don't have suggestions for why people don't come here I'm just saying your suggestions aren't satisfactory.

As has been stated before, a chat is just not feasible at the moment with the developer time and resources we have at our disposal. Anyone is welcome to start development on a built-in chat (which would be nice!) - it is, after all, an open-source project - and make a pull request to the main repository when it's done. But it's not something our core developer team can focus on right now.

@robev ''There are other rooms, with 71 users currently talking in 52 rooms''. on SE. You opened one yourself a few days ago. I did say I have other suggestions but I first want to hear others first. I meant that when you started you should have copied SE exactly not thought you could do better. That comes after they have settled here not before.