It wouldn't necessarily reduce social activity, but it could reduce forum posting. Depending on its implementation it could have some impact or no impact at all.
For example, if the chat could be used by all members... for sure some of them would ask questions there instead of opening a new...
Based on personal experience and what I know from other forum owners, chat add-ons do (normally) reduce forum activity.
It's only anecdotal evidence, of course, I don't think studies on this have ever been made. It's also true that often forum owners install chat add-ons to try to increase...
I agree. The few active members would probably start spending more time in the chat than posting in the forums. And yes, the drop in activity has been quite noticeable.
I would blame the usual suspects (social media and Google), but it's probably a seasonal thing or the fact that people are...
If I understand correctly what Honeybadger is saying, there's at least a couple of good chat add-ons for XenForo, for example: Chat 2 by Siropu
A lot of forum owners stay away from these add-ons because they often reduce forum activity; not to mention that a lot of confused users start using it...
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