It is currently feature flagged on main and not removed. The reason we opted for a removal is that there's quite a lot of technical debt in this area and if we bring back chat it will probably be in the context of the wider Forem ecosystem, not instance-specific.
That said: most of the Connect code is fairly independent so if you want to keep it around it should be possible even if a bit inconvenient.
It is currently feature flagged on
mainand not removed. The reason we opted for a removal is that there's quite a lot of technical debt in this area and if we bring back chat it will probably be in the context of the wider Forem ecosystem, not instance-specific.That said: most of the Connect code is fairly independent so if you want to keep it around it should be possible even if a bit inconvenient.
Ok. Thanks a lot for the elaborate reply! :) 🔥
This is the Connect removal PR. You can use the information from here to see how to go about keeping it around in your branch.