What is the reason for this? When wikia now has a chat feature? Sgt Frogman —Preceding undated comment added 20:42, April 6, 2012‎ (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~~~~ I never use IRC, but the Chat has been disabled for this Wiki. AsherEire talk 20:44, April 6, 2012 (UTC) Several reasons: 1. * IRC predates Chat by quite some time, roughly 1 year. 2. * Compared to IRC, Chat has very little functionality. Everyone is accustomed to IRC and it's not hard to get used to. 3. * I remember back when we had Chat, it was abused by one user the first day. We had to permanently block several of their accounts and it was tiresome - IRC we could just ban an IP address and then it's dealt with. 4. * Back when Chat was activated, noone ever used it. The community decid