Is a chat feature needed on HeroesWorld?

In the old chat, people mostly just chatted and talked about general topics, not just about heroes.
And no one forces anyone to reread the chat history. Maybe it will be cleaned once a week, like before.

When creating a forum, it is essential to create a thread for casual chatting (like the "Tribune" in Might and Magic III), where people can chat about anything. Also, when creating a chat (like a smoking room, a place to vent,...). But creating a chat on the forum negatively affects the forum's content with text information; even its search engine optimization is affected over time, which impacts how easily the forum can be found.

Almost no one rereads the chat history, but it may contain important information, for example, a discussion of cool moves in a game among 10 players, which would be unavailable to others. If this discussion started on the forum, it would be saved in a thread forever, and everyone would see it. This is what makes the forum's content unique and thematic.

So, a chat for casual chatting is a bad goal in itself.
It is necessary to create a forum chat – a multi-room chat for thematic conversations. We all know what casual chatting is – it's a violation in the end.