Forum:Vote to Restore Wikia Chat

Over the course of recent weeks there have been varying responses to the deactivation of the Custom BIONICLE Wiki chat client in favor of other ventures. As some will argue "varying responses" is putting the largely hurt sentiments of the community lightly. With recent statistics coming to light and a general feeling amongst the administrative staff that the deactivation of chat did not serve its intended purpose, the Wikia chat's revival shall now be openly entertained once more.

With the initial deactivation of the chat client earlier this year, the Custom BIONICLE Wiki saw the revival of its previously beloved shivtr forums. Whilst access to this feature was initially restricted during the transition period, the overarching solution has proved itself to be a dissatisfying one, with Wiki activity becoming staggered and with multiple instances of users voicing disapproval. While we could sit around and exchange lengthy essays about what went wrong with my own administrative handling of the situation, I feel it would be more productive to propose a possible resolution, one that will hopefully satisfy any lingering resentment and enable normal activity to resume.

After some discussion with various community members I have come to a conclusion that we have several community-based communication outlets available to us: the invite-only Discord chat client, the revived Shivtr Forums, and the much-loved Wikia Chat feature. With Discord offering a polished and professional chat client, with Wikia Chat offering accessible, on-site discussion, and with the Forums presenting the possibility of immortalizing quotes or text posts in a physical archive directory, all three features have proven themselves to have their uses (though only the former two are useful in an instant messaging chat capacity). Hopefully this action will be the first step in repairing the damage caused by the wrongful deactivation of chat, which I think we can all agree backfired.

So, let's have it. Yae or Nae for implementation of the above motion in some capacity?