This may have been mentioned before, but I feel the community would be the very first booru site to have a change and build a large community together and finally get a chance to talk to each others on chat outside of discord. Meet new people and follow their favourite artists.

How will it work:
The chat should act as both a live-chat system, where many members can create sub-communities, invite others and share your favourite art/feedback
(With blacklist system, blurring/tag-warning)!

Benefits:
I feel this will not only give a chance for other users to help new members around, giving them a sense of directions and allowing them and become comfortable with the new website. While also keeping this place lively and active with others people and even getting in touch with many artists if they’re active.

Activities:
Chatting to random strangers
Sharing photos via e621
Friend-list
Followers (Artist)
Alerts (Followed artists upload)
Communities to explore

Risks:
Sensitive data: Personal data, location, etc.
Bullying/harassment
Discriminatory communities.
Back seating moderation
Unsolicited hookups/Doxxing
(And many more)

I understand that no chat is without risks, and of course there may not be enough mods to monitor the activities

Of the site and the chat simultaneously, However I feel with a voluntary moderation designated to the chat and a moderation bot, there can be a chance that the risks will diminish significantly. New rules to help understand what is appropriate and what is not, and to give confidence in users when red-flags appear, and a report button to contact chat-moderator

Such as: Photos sharing should be sourced from e621 only.

I understand the likelihood of something like this to happen is simmer than my debit-card.

Thank you for reading

We have blips, which might not be as extensive as your idea. but it essentially acts as an in site chat system.

You know, we had live online chat in the form of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) back years ago. It has since been discontinued.

However, at this point, what you are suggesting would work just as well on a Discord server.

thegreatwolfgang said:
You know, we had live online chat in the form of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) back years ago. It has since been discontinued.

However, at this point, what you are suggesting would work just as well on a Discord server.

This. The only real "downside" of the discord there is having to have a discord account first.

leotheairwolf said:
This. The only real "downside" of the discord there is having to have a discord account first.

Well, that and the fact that Discord is a third party service run by a company which is neither connected nor accountable to e621, and is known to be significantly less trustworthy.

leotheairwolf said:
This. The only real "downside" of the discord there is having to have a discord account first.

Plus, a lot of other things like using Discord for communication, which people may already be using Discord for those purposes. Having an preexisting account then publicly linked to e621 can be a problem for some people, and creating/using a separate alt account is a hassle (a lot of sites also have a strict policy against alts for one person, as it allows avoiding users' blocklists; I don't know if Discord is entirely kosher with people having alt accounts).

watsit said:
Plus, a lot of other things like using Discord for communication, which people may already be using Discord for those purposes. Having an preexisting account then publicly linked to e621 can be a problem for some people, and creating/using a separate alt account is a hassle (a lot of sites also have a strict policy against alts for one person, as it allows avoiding users' blocklists; I don't know if Discord is entirely kosher with people having alt accounts).

Didn't discord introduce a feature that lets people easily switch between accounts on desktop a while ago?
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412732047127-Discord-Account-Switcher-FAQ

snpthecat said:
Didn't discord introduce a feature that lets people easily switch between accounts on desktop a while ago?
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412732047127-Discord-Account-Switcher-FAQ

Seems like a rather user-unfriendly way of doing it. Rather than having a channel list separated by account that you can passively keep track of, you need to actively switch accounts to see different things. Switching accounts seems to also reset certain preferences, according to that. The accounts are also linked, so if you have a problem with one, your other can be affected too, even if you use them for completely different things.

Having to use their proprietary app, instead of one that better fits my preferred way of doing things or better integrates with my system (like I can for IRC or Matrix), is also a big turn off.

watsit said:
Seems like a rather user-unfriendly way of doing it. Rather than having a channel list separated by account that you can passively keep track of, you need to actively switch accounts to see different things. Switching accounts seems to also reset certain preferences, according to that. The accounts are also linked, so if you have a problem with one, your other can be affected too, even if you use them for completely different things.

Having to use their proprietary app, instead of one that better fits my preferred way of doing things or better integrates with my system (like I can for IRC or Matrix), is also a big turn off.

Yeah, but i'm just responding to

(a lot of sites also have a strict policy against alts for one person, as it allows avoiding users' blocklists; I don't know if Discord is entirely kosher with people having alt accounts).