I tried in the first days and ran! Then I decided to look into it later in case I was just too dumb to understand. But since then - I only hear of troubles related to chat or advertisements to try to get us to go there. I thought I would try again in Sep, but now it will be Jan or later as I have other more interesting things to pursue here.

stellabelle is now posting in twitter that she's gotten out of the chats, so I'm watching to see if she has any details about that decision. Maybe some of the technical people need them, but I'm not even sure of that.

I think chats should be happening in steemit comments where everyone can be involved and where it helps the platform have engagement for search engines. The average steemit post only gets three comments according to penguinpablo, so it's not like the chatters would be unwelcome.