Community Chat

Many communities have their own group chat, separate from the post feed — a place for members to talk in real time instead of posting.

Opening community chat

There’s no separate “chat” tab — the entry point sits right on the community page, and what you see depends on whether the community already has a chat and who’s active in it:

• If the community has a chat with people currently online, you’ll see a pill like “12 Chatting Live” — tap it to jump in.
• If the chat exists but no one’s online right now, the pill instead reads Join Live Chat.
• If the community doesn’t have a chat yet and you’re its owner or a moderator, you’ll see Start Live Chat — tap it to create the community’s chat for the first time.

You need to be a member of the community to open its chat — join the community first (see Joining & Discovering Communities).

What you can do in community chat

Community chat isn’t a stripped-down version of regular chat — it has the same tools as any group chat: replies, emoji reactions, voice messages, pinned messages, editing your own messages, forwarding, scheduled messages, and mentions. It has its own group settings too, including the ability to leave, and a toggle to turn NERD off for the chat. See Group Chats for how those work.

Moderation

Community chat has its own admins — the person who starts the chat and anyone they promote — separate from the community’s post moderators. Managing a message (for example, deleting someone else’s) uses this chat-admin role, while pinning a post to the community’s feed uses the community’s moderator list. See Moderators & Rules for how community moderators are set.

On the web

The same “Chatting Live” pill appears on the community page. Web also shows a plain Community Chat link whenever the community has a chat, whether or not the online-count pill is showing — tap it the same way to open the chat.