talk in chat

Communication privilege awarded at 20 reputation

What is chat?




When should I visit chat?

  • for real time collaboration
  • to meet the fellow members of your community in a more social environment
  • for less structured, casual (but still roughly on-topic) conversation

Where is chat?

There is a link to chat in the footer of every page, as well as in the Stack Exchange site switcher menu (top right corner of the page). The chat for this site is at:

Why do I need 20 rep to talk in chat?

Your reputation on chat is the same as your reputation on the parent site (or the sum of your reputation across sites, if you're visiting

You can always enter chat rooms and listen with no rep at all.

We can't allow anonymous participation on chat, so we require a small bit of parent site reputation to ensure that chat is reserved for active, engaged members of the community.