# Looking for a simple chat **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Django\ **Created:** [October 6, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334 "2019-10-06T13:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saturnus-ringar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/saturnus-ringar/32/410_2.png) [@saturnus-ringar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/saturnus-ringar)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/1 "2019-10-06T13:23:34Z")
Hi, My first post in here. 🙂 I’m buliding a community-site and we need a very simple chat for the site. I’d prefer to keep it simple without Redis etc. etc… I haven’t found a chat (that’s currently updated), so far, that’s suitable. Do you know any? ---
**Author:** ![andrewgodwin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/andrewgodwin/32/2_2.png) [@andrewgodwin](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/andrewgodwin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/2 "2019-10-09T23:08:26Z")
Hm, I’ve not seen one of those around either, I’m afraid, though I don’t really go out looking for them a lot! ---
**Author:** ![saturnus-ringar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/saturnus-ringar/32/410_2.png) [@saturnus-ringar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/saturnus-ringar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/3 "2019-10-10T05:05:28Z")
That’s a shame. I still haven’t found a decent chat. ---
**Author:** ![ihormaslov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ihormaslov](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/ihormaslov)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/4 "2019-12-02T21:08:52Z")
I’ve not seen simple chats on django. You can build it on your own witch django-channels and ReactJS on front-end (or something other which is better for you) django-channels has tutorial for building simple chat server. ---
**Author:** ![andyide](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/andyide/32/5218_2.png) [@andyide](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/andyide)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/5 "2019-12-03T22:12:15Z")
Maybe one of the JS chat options is the way to go? ---
**Author:** ![saturnus-ringar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/saturnus-ringar/32/410_2.png) [@saturnus-ringar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/saturnus-ringar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/6 "2019-12-04T07:59:08Z")
Weird… that there are no chats around for Django. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to build a chat on my own at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![saturnus-ringar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/saturnus-ringar/32/410_2.png) [@saturnus-ringar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/saturnus-ringar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/7 "2019-12-04T07:59:39Z")
> [@andyide](#): > > Maybe one of the JS chat options is the way to go? Which JS chats options? ---
**Author:** ![andyide](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/andyide/32/5218_2.png) [@andyide](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/andyide)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/8 "2019-12-04T21:58:30Z")
My suggestion is to do a google search for what you are looking for: [https://www.google.com/search?q=website+chat+js](https://www.google.com/search?q=website+chat+js) We use [https://www.tawk.to](https://www.tawk.to) at work. The is more a customer contacting the business type chat system. ---
**Author:** ![saturnus-ringar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/saturnus-ringar/32/410_2.png) [@saturnus-ringar](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/saturnus-ringar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-for-a-simple-chat/334/9 "2019-12-04T22:16:59Z")
I’ll dig into this soon. This project is …sort of… in hiatus now. Thanks for the tawk-suggestion but I need a free chat. I forgot to mention that.